Books
fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago11 new books in April offer a chance to step inside someone else's world
Books provide an alternative to doomscrolling, offering perspectives on anxiety, corruption, and reality.
In that sense, it's not so different from a lab experiment, where researchers set the stage and observe what unfolds. The aim of these often fantastical scenarios is just as serious: to test, stretch, or even shatter our intuitions about how the world works.