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Jennifer Szalai

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Entertainment
8 May 2019
(Books of The Times): There’s something telling about the fact that “Our Man,” George Packer’s hefty, dishy biography of U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, clocks in at more than 500 pages without the courtesy of an index. This isn’t a book you’re supposed to dip into piecemeal, searching for information; it’s best appreciated like a novel, consumed whole.
The agony and the ecstasy of Richard Holbrooke
Entertainment
18 Apr 2019
(Books of The Times): As a Filipino child growing up in a small Massachusetts town, Grace Talusan felt both scrutinized and unseen. Having arrived from the Philippines when she was 2, she rehearsed a Boston accent and prayed for a metamorphosis, pleading with God to turn her into a white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Documenting undocumented lives in 'The Body Papers'
Entertainment
28 Feb 2019
This isn’t an academic question but a vital and urgent one. As William Davies makes clear in “Nervous States,” his wide-ranging yet brilliantly astute new book, issues that were presumably settled before our turbulent moment are now up for grabs.
How the mind-body connection is rewiring our politics