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Redeeming Time

From Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud, a book co-written with Stephen Greenblatt, which will be published next month by Yale University Press. The idea of the second chance is one…

Gimme Welter

by Becca Rothfeld,

From All Things Are Too Small, which will be published next month by Metropolitan Books. “All things / are too small,” begins a poem believed to be written by the thirteenth-century Dutch…

Cross Purposes

by Anna Shechtman,

From The Riddles of the Sphinx, which was published this month by HarperOne. I was sixteen years old when a family friend gave me a copy of Dora, the case…

Red Light Therapy

by Adam Phillips,

By Adam Phillips, from Unforbidden Pleasures, which was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of more than fifteen books.

Plowing the Field

by Philip Freeman,

From How to Grow Old, by Marcus Tullius Cicero. The work was written in 44 b.c. and was published in a new edition this month by Princeton University Press. Translated…