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Books editor at @TheAtlantic. Formerly @latimes, @NYMag, author (Hothouse).
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The Thinkers Who Explain This Baffling Era

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By Boris Kachka Verified
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. My favorite essays feel like surprising chemical reactions: Their materials combine into something novel and combustible. The French philosopher Roland Barthes’s 1957 essay “The World of Wrestling,” which examines the “amplification of the tragic masks” in professional (fake) grappling, certainly fits this category.
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What I Learned From My Dog

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By Boris Kachka Verified
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Humans used to spend a lot of time thinking about what separated us from animals. René Descartes, who wrote, “I think, therefore I am,” practiced vivisection on rabbits and dogs because he thought that they lacked consciousness.
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What Dogs See That We Can’t

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By Boris Kachka Verified
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3 hours ago A cut-and-come again garden is the gift that keeps on giving. When it’s too hot to turn on the oven, fresh salads and sandwiches are lifesavers. With a cut-and-come-again garden, you can pack these no-cook dishes with freshly harvested lettuce all summer long. Cut-and-come-again gardening is a …
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