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Joan Wickersham

Joan Wickersham

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Trying to escape? Try these books.

Here are some recommendations — in the spirit of escaping 2024, celebrating good writing, and hanging on to the things that endure.

29.11.2024 10

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Joan Wickersham

What does ‘consequential’ really mean?

It’s an alarm clock of a word. It implies that whatever you imagined the stakes were before, they’re even higher than you thought.

25.10.2024 10

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Joan Wickersham

Continual cycles of growth and doubt

I have no idea what the world will be like when my snowdrops and fritillaria come up next spring.

27.09.2024 10

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Joan Wickersham

‘Dining across the divide’ is a model for having difficult conversations

Two people on opposite ends of the political spectrum share a meal and their differences.

30.08.2024 20

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The hottest, coolest summer movie ever

It’s a great movie to watch or rewatch during a heatwave.

26.07.2024 20

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Joan Wickersham

I hate Smart Reply, and I’m not turning it off

It doesn’t care how the writer thinks or what the recipient feels. It blows people off with a kind of staggeringly bland algorithmic sang-froid.

05.07.2024 30

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Dick Van Dyke’s footstool

Sometimes walking around the ottoman means keeping my mouth shut, and sometimes it means speaking up when in the past I would have been silent.

06.06.2024 20

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Joan Wickersham

What the future looked like 60 years ago

Looking at a 60-year-old magazine is an exercise not only in history but also in humility.

25.04.2024 20

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Joan Wickersham

The tortoise, the hare, and the relentless polling

The numbers were all anybody talked about.

29.03.2024 20

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Joan Wickersham

My mother-in-law’s clivia and its descendants

Clivias connect me back to my parents and my mother-in-law in a way that feels welcome and moving.

23.02.2024 60

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Joan Wickersham

A book for our times

In the early days of 2024, if you are looking for topical reading, you couldn’t do better than to turn or return to Charles Dickens’s massive,...

26.01.2024 20

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Joan Wickersham

What does, and doesn’t, help when treating holiday depression

a leaden sense of dread that can descend without warning at this time of year and that comes and goes throughout the season.

29.12.2023 40

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Joan Wickersham

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