Someday, We’ll Look Back on All of This and Write a Novel
Writers are taking notes on the pandemic, says Sloane Crosley. But now’s not the time for your coronavirus book.
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He Questioned the Meaning of Life. William James Answered.
In “Sick Souls, Healthy Minds,” John Kaag looks to the 19th-century psychologist and philosopher for answers to life’s big questions.
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Samsung: The Tech Monster That Conquered the World
Geoffrey Cain’s “Samsung Rising” tells the full story of the giant corporation from its beginnings as a shop selling vegetables.
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Is There Cosmic Meaning in Life’s Randomness?
In a new memoir, “My Meteorite,” the artist Harry Dodge searches for the grand pattern in his life’s myriad coincidences.
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For Black and Mixed-Race Women, Hair and Identity Are Tangled Together
In “That Hair,” the Portuguese writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida uses a young half-Angolan girl in Lisbon to explore her own Afro-European selfhood.
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Has Physics Lost Its Way?
In “The Dream Universe,” David Lindley argues that physicists have become too enamored of theoretical phenomena like parallel universes and black holes.
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The Ghost Writer: An Author Imagines a Letter From Her Late Grandmother
“Nobody Will Tell You This but Me,” a memoir by Bess Kalb, traces her family history from the Russian pogroms to the American dream.
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The Jewish Race-Car Driver Who Outpaced the Nazis
In “Faster,” Neal Bascomb brings to life a vivid chapter in auto-racing history.
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Thinking About Empire and Economy, With a Lawyer’s Mind and a Poet’s Words
For almost 40 years, the poet and law professor Lawrence Joseph has embraced big questions. “A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems” shows the path his work has traveled.
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How the White Working Class Is Being Destroyed
“Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism,” by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, describes the growing dysfunction of blue-collar workers in white communities.
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