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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty Eight Books in Which Ignorance Is the Point
People are always searching for answers, but not knowing can be its own reward.
Matt Chase History Is Never Only One Person’s Story
A good group biography details with curiosity the ways, trivial and tremendous, that humans influence one another.
Getty The Books Swallowed by the Black Hole of the Coronavirus
Some spectacular titles had the terrible luck of being released in early 2020. They still deserve our attention.
Ina Jang The Thin Line Between Sickness and Health
Nine books that helped me reframe my relationship to viruses, the most abundant biological entity on Earth
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