A Book That Was Like Putting on ‘a New Set of Glasses’
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The literary internet is full of lists that suggest books that will inform you about one subject or another—we just published one last week in this very newsletter (on to better understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict). But recently, we decided to go a bit deeper and asked writers and editors for . We were looking for reading experiences that went beyond just adding knowledge—not a small thing, I know—and that gave readers a whole different way of and how it opened him up to the possibilities and joys of strangeness. Clint Smith explained how Meghan O’Rourke’s allowed him to appreciate what it might be like to experience life with a chronic illness. After reading James Nestor’s , Olga Khazan realized she was breathing all wrong. I didn’t add my own contribution to this list, but I thought I would share it here, because I think about its argument almost every day.
