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    A Year in Reading: Ruth Franklin

    by Ruth Franklin Dec 15, 2020 3 minutes

    Until March, my reading this year hummed along as usual: books for the seminar on biography I taught, background reading for assignments, the occasional book club novel. Then, of course, everything fell apart, in my mind as well as in the world. As soon as lockdown began, I found myself unable to read for any sustained period of time—a problem not as terrible as many others the pandemic brought, but difficult nonetheless. (I salute all of you who finished , but I suspect you weren’t supervising multiple children in online school while trying to do your own

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