9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Briefly

A reader asked recently whether I'm in the habit of consuming literary palate cleansers, as a way to clear my mind between heavy books.It's a good question, and the answer is a qualified yes: Unless I'm tearing through all the works of a particular author something I did more of when I was younger I'm often inclined to follow a long novel or ambitious biography with writing that's quick and digestible and that requires a different set of critical faculties (or none at all).
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