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Remnick does not dispute her account. “I think I would be happy if Judith Thurman wanted to write next about the National Football League,” he explained to me in an email. “The point is, I love reading her on whatever moves her, and she is a woman of parts, of wide-ranging interests and sensibility, a deep reader of literature, someone with a keen ... See more

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The articles of a writer are often considered a minor work, that almost residual book that only their fervent readers read. However, these pieces, especially when it comes to opinion columns, can also be read as a kind of ongoing autobiography, a shared diary that is made on the go and without prior outlines. This genre allows for a

To Michelle Kane. I can never thank you enough for introducing me to the term “refresh blister” and for caring as much about this book as I do.

Katherine Heiny • Games and Rituals

Katie Kowal

@lifewithink

Kelley Greene

@kelleygreene

propitious

Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel

While he was dying of prostate cancer, Broyard wrote a memoir, Intoxicated by My Illness. In one table-turning chapter, “The Patient Examines the Doctor,” Broyard writes: What do I want in a doctor? I would say that I want one who is a close reader of illness and a good critic of medicine. [ . . . ] I see no reason or need for my doctor to love me—

Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

obtuse.

Sam Harris • Free Will

Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection.