Robert Radin

In Noche Triste, Robert Radin explores his struggles with anorexia in the 1980s. He also examines the history of self-starvation—its roots in rituals of religious purification, its development into an entertainment craze, its use as a tool of resistance—and, in the process, forces us to reconsider what it means to have anorexia. As his starving becomes an increasingly political act...