One thing he noticed was violence, and University of Chicago Press just published a collection of his essays on the topic, “Atrocities of the Mind.” What they show is someone living through terrible times with courage, openness, curiosity and a refusal to exempt himself from the diagnosis. We could use a few Dwight Macdonalds these days.(University of Chicago Press/TNS)
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For a fresh take on the first American road trip: “The Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark,” Indiana-based journalist Craig Fehrman’s immersive panorama, drawing on oral histories and long-buried sources, rescues this potted narrative from the usual classroom tales of two men and a canoe, for a revelatory portrait about mutual surprise, allowing equal time to both the discovers and the owners of the land being discovered. (Simon & Schuster/TNS)
Handout/Simon & Schuster/TNS
Many books are good or even great; few are startlingly original and a joy to read. One such rarity is “Why Fish Don’t Exist” by science journalist Lulu Miller. (Simon & Schuster/TNS)
I just asked AI what the reading situation looks like this summer. I asked, knowing very well what it looks like, but I was curious what it wo…
One thing he noticed was violence, and University of Chicago Press just published a collection of his essays on the topic, “Atrocities of the Mind.” What they show is someone living through terrible times with courage, openness, curiosity and a refusal to exempt himself from the diagnosis. We could use a few Dwight Macdonalds these days.(University of Chicago Press/TNS)
For a fresh take on the first American road trip: “The Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark,” Indiana-based journalist Craig Fehrman’s immersive panorama, drawing on oral histories and long-buried sources, rescues this potted narrative from the usual classroom tales of two men and a canoe, for a revelatory portrait about mutual surprise, allowing equal time to both the discovers and the owners of the land being discovered. (Simon & Schuster/TNS)
Many books are good or even great; few are startlingly original and a joy to read. One such rarity is “Why Fish Don’t Exist” by science journalist Lulu Miller. (Simon & Schuster/TNS)
