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The Books Briefing: To All the Books I’ve Yet to Read

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Whether your resolutions for 2019 involve tackling your most persistent demons or simply the new year is a good time to turn over a new leaf. John Kaag finds an antidote to both modern ennui and self-improvement platitudes in the epigraph of Friedrich Nietzsche’s graduate dissertation, while Karen Swallow Prior writes that the very process of thoughtful reading can build skills for living

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