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Meaningful engagement: Listening to audiobooks during a lockdown
Narrators, clearly, have an outsized role to play in one’s enjoyment of an audiobook.
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Book review: A Spanish novel of uncanny events that resonates with our time
The Pied Piper’s tale is among those that come to mind when reading acclaimed Spanish author Andrés Barba’s new novel, A Luminous Republic, in an English translation by Lisa Dillman.
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Fight against coronavirus: On heroes, and whether we need them or not
Heroes allow the rest of us to avoid responsibility. It’s easier to sit back and watch others do what needs to be done. In a deeper sense, when rugged individualism is cheered, structures that promote privilege remain ignored.
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What to read during a pandemic, including books not about pandemics
Here are some suggestions that span different subjects and states of mind, for those who want to spend some time away from the current scenario or simply put it in context.
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Coronavirus pandemic: Dealing with an infection of conspiracy theories
All of us, to varying degrees, interpret ambiguous events in the light of what we already believe. It’s useful to scrutinise our assumptions and check if we’re being prudently paranoid, or letting our predispositions get the better of us.
