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Some good books I read recently

Since January 2020 Read 1. Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko 2. Every Creature Has a Story, Janaki Lenin 3. The Writing Life, Annie Dillard 4. Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist, Frank Close 5. Shoes of the Dead, Kota Neelima 6. The Overstory,

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A book on the Otherside

I walked into the bookshop. The first row of books had a label on it saying ‘Recommended’. I never touched those books. They were always too mainstream, and populism never read well. Instead, I was adept at finding books that had found mention in some article, review, conversation, somewhere. A