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“‘Anniversaries’ is not difficult reading, but it is painstaking. ... It requires a hard chair, a fresh pen and your full attention — for attention is its great subject.” @parul_sehgalhttps://nyti.ms/2Cl3441 

The novelist Richard Beard launches what he calls an inquest into his own past, hoping to remember the day when he was 11 and his younger brother, Nicky, 9, drowned beside him in the waves during a summer holiday at the Cornish coasthttps://nyti.ms/2Ev2X7K 

“I had entertained visions of Somerset Maugham traveling across the desert, as the story goes, reading Proust and ripping out each page as he completed it. But my experience felt closer to shoveling snow in the middle of a blizzard. With a fork.”https://nyti.ms/2EwFPFF 

Richard Beard is grown up now, with children of his own, but he finds himself increasingly numb to emotion, and his marriage is on the rocks. He believes that repressed grief is to blame, and he goes in search of his lost history to recover himselfhttps://nyti.ms/2Et1kqZ 

“‘Anniversaries’ is not difficult reading, but it is painstaking. ... It requires a hard chair, a fresh pen and your full attention — for attention is its great subject.” @parul_sehgalhttps://nyti.ms/2Ck0hrR 

The chain pickerel is a fish that treads water "in much the way that a hummingbird treads air."https://nyti.ms/2EvR5Cy 

In his new memoir, Richard Beard launches an inquest into his own past, hoping to remember the day when his younger brother drowned beside him in the waves during a holiday at the Cornish coasthttps://nyti.ms/2CkQMsp 

In his new book, John B. Judis worries that liberals and the left don't understand the legitimate concerns of those who feel left behind by globalizationhttps://nyti.ms/2EqAKPs 

For Walt Whitman, it all started with a cold on Dec. 18, 1891. The New York Times took note. [Correction: We've deleted an earlier tweet that cited the year as 1892. The year was 1891.]https://nyti.ms/2CltqTS 

Every evening of his presidency, Barack Obama read 10 letters from the thousands that arrived at the White House daily. Read some of them in “To Obama,“ out this week.https://nyti.ms/2Ck07Rn 

How do you pluck golf balls from a river? With a telescoping rod called an Orange Trapper.https://nyti.ms/2Ck7DLX 

“Only in literature can we fully express the injustices of society, the extremes of human nature and our hopes for a beautiful future,” said @majian53https://nyti.ms/2S0yoKS 

"Because American democracy is again under threat, coming apart with chaos and bloodshed, I urge you to read what Robert Bly said the night he won the National Book Award."https://nyti.ms/2EvwLlf 

John B. Judis tries to understand the current resurgence of nationalism by getting into the minds of those who support Trump, Brexit and xenophobic politicians across Europehttps://nyti.ms/2ChvCvi 

The Times's art critics Holland Cotter, @robertasmithnyt and @jsf reveal their favorite art books of 2018https://nyti.ms/2RZ8ebl 

"Come With Me" is a "smart, timely and highly entertaining novel" about characters who "all have their own troubles with, for lack of a more specific term, technology," says Sarah Lyallhttps://nyti.ms/2EsjgSM