The journalist and prose writer is best known for works about female Russian soldiers in World War II and the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
In these impassioned essays, Birkerts warns that the power of language and literature to sustain the self is under threat from “the tidal inrush of digitized living.”
A new book by John D. Spooner, “No One Ever Told Us That: Money and Life Lessons for Young Adults,” speaks to people in their 20s and 30s but has good advice for everybody.
