The clinical psychologist Lisa Damour discusses the specific challenges of raising teenagers during the pandemic, and Dwight Garner asks Pamela Paul about putting together the Book Review.
In Victoria Jamieson’s “When Stars Are Scattered,” a Somali boy pines for his mother and cares for his little brother with hope and humor during 15 years in a refugee camp.
John Kay and Mervyn King’s “Radical Uncertainty,” Stanislas Dehaene’s “How We Learn” and Anthony David’s “Into the Abyss” plumb the depths of the brain.
“Hurricane Season,” by Fernanda Melchor, imagines Mexico’s scourge of violence against women in language that is fierce, profane and marvelously inventive.
