Books for the Busy Person

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Many of us wish we had more time in the day to sit with a book: to get stuck in place for hours, entirely immersed. But reading in short chunks doesn’t have to mean a shallow experience: Some works even benefit from those constraints. Today’s newsletter rounds up our writers’ suggestions for...