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Review: The Town Slowly Empties Mirrors Changing Realities of Our Modern Existence
On the pandemic and the lockdown, the book goes back and forth between our private and public affairs, the personal and the political, and tries to make sense of the self and the world that it occupies.
Representational image. A cobbler waits for customers at his roadside stall, during complete lockdown on weekends to curb COVID-19 spread, in Lucknow, Saturday, August 8, 2020. Photo: PTI
Inundated by the continuous waves of the (COVID-19) virus, the storm water drains of our everyday (normal) life seem clogged. Forced indoors by this series of major and minor lockdowns, many of us have been reduced to mere spectators of the world around us, a chasm of time (which we ignored before) has opened. The plague year(s), as we may soon end up calling it, has etched the rupture between the home and the world like never before.
The Straits Times
Jane Austen museum wants to discuss slavery. Will her fans listen?
Move to link author and her family to the slave trade sparks debate about ‘woke madness’
Jenny Gross
The house in the English village of Chawton, Hampshire, where the author Jane Austen lived is now a museum dedicated to her life. The director of the museum said this month that it would include details about Austen and her family’s ties to the slave trade, sparking debate.PHOTO: NYTIMES
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Matt Haig (Viking)
Who of us hasn’t wondered how different our lives would be if we’d made different choices? If we’d gone to College A instead of College B? If we’d married Person C instead of Person D? And if we could have a do-over, would we want one? The Midnight Library depicts a magical place, in between the life we’ve lived and the lives we could have lived, where we can enter in progress what seems like the better life. Much like the film It’s a Wonderful Life, the novel shows us how choosing a different existence would change not just our own life trajectories but also those of others perhaps in terrible ways.