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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Over the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about old age. Earlier this year, imost Americans seemed to share my fixation, as voters debated President Joe Biden’s mental fitness for a second term. But my preoccupation also has something to do with realizing that my peers—those in their early 30s—are no longer the primary audience for pop culture, as well as the feeling that people close to me are no longer “getting older” every year, but actually “aging.” And because you’re reading the Books Briefing, it won’t be a surprise that I’ve turned to literature for guidance.First, here are four stories from The Atlantic’s Books section: A naked desperation to be seen In defense of marital secrets Six books that feel like watching a movie The woman who would be Steinbeck With his latest novel, Our Evenings, the English author Alan Hollinghurst, now 70 years old, has written a work that “reads like a throwback,” Charles McGrath wrote for us this week: It is “as if the author, now older and wiser, were reminding both himself and his readers that … true emotional intimacy is often elusive.” Like all of Hollinghurst’s work, McGrath argues, his latest is focused on “time, and what it does to everything.” And what the passing years seem to do, most of all, is get in the way of the truth: Many of Hollinghurst’s characters intentionally misremember or obscure their past mistakes and failures. A vein of sadness runs through the novel; the “evenings” of the title perhaps refers not only to the protagonist’s numbered days but also to a bygone era in England, and a romanticized past that was simpler than “the mess that contemporary Britain has become,” as McGrath puts it.The writer Lore Segal, who died this week at the age of 96, had a somewhat different approach to the passage of time—one with more humor and less regret. The Austrian American author was best known for her tales about immigrants and outcasts; last year, my colleague Gal Beckerman recommended her novel Her First American for our summer reading guide, writing that “the originality of this love story between two outsiders in 1950s New York City … cannot be overstated.” And Segal kept writing until the very end of her life. In James Marcus’s appreciation of her life and work, he writes that in recent years she sent him drafts of her new stories, many of which were included in her final collection, Ladies’ Lunch. Even after a decades-long career, Segal was “still beset with doubts about her work,” Marcus reports.Her last story for The New Yorker, to which she was a frequent contributor, was published just last month. In it, the reader sees Segal address those doubts almost head-on. The story follows a group of old friends who get together and, almost immediately, start talking about the embarrassment of writing for a living. Bridget mentions that she’s sent her latest story to a friend from a former writing class, and for four weeks, she’s been anxiously awaiting a response. The others ask what she’ll do, and she responds that she’ll “lie in bed at night and stew. Dream vengeful dreams.” Age, it seems, doesn’t dissipate pettiness or insecurity.In that story, which appeared in Ladies’ Lunch, Segal doesn’t betray much sadness at getting older, just a commitment to working things out on the page. Where Hollinghurst’s work is tinged with regret over unfulfilled lives and better days, Segal looks back with a less maudlin touch. She seems to suggest that the solution to aging is to just keep living—and writing. Illustration by Aldo Jarillo Alan Hollinghurst’s Lost EnglandBy Charles McGrathIn his new novel, the present isn’t much better than the past—and it’s a lot less sexy.Read the full article.What to ReadSabrina, by Nick DrnasoAlmost no one is writing like Drnaso, whose second book, Sabrina, became the first graphic novel to be nominated for the Booker Prize, in 2018. The story, which explores the exploitative nature of both true crime and the 24-hour news cycle, focuses on a woman named Sabrina who goes missing, leaving her loved ones to hope, pray, and worry. When a video of her murder goes viral on social media, those close to her get sucked into supporting roles in strangers’ conspiracy theories. Drnaso’s style across all of his works—but especially in Sabrina—is stark and minimal: His illustrations are deceptively simple, yet entrancing. He doesn’t overload the book with dialogue. He knows and trusts his readers to put the pieces together; part of the audience’s job is to conjure how his characters feel as they approach the mystery of Sabrina’s disappearance and death. Drnaso wants to show the reader how, in a society full of misinformation and wild suppositions, the most trustworthy resource might just be your own two eyes. — Fran HoepfnerFrom our list: Six books that feel like watching a movieOut Next Week

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At this late stage in Bob Woodward’s career, it would be possible to publish an entertaining anthology of the negative reviews of his books. Although there’s an ongoing debate about the journalistic merits of Woodward’s reportorial mode, he has no doubt succeeded in bringing out the vitriolic best from the likes of Joan Didion, Christopher Hitchens, and Jack Shafer.A few years back, I wrote to Woodward, hoping to get his help with an article I was reporting. I decided to solicit him with a thick layer of flattery, in what I believed to be the spirit of Bob Woodward. To my embarrassment, he replied that he struggled to reconcile my fawning missive with the negative review of his book State of Denial that I had published in The New York Times in 2006, “which strongly concludes the opposite.” His response suggests that he might be the ideal editor of the anthology.Over the years, my critique of Woodward has softened considerably. It’s not that the complaints about his works aren’t fair: He does recite his sources’ version of events with excessive deference; he trumpets every nugget of reporting, no matter how trivial; he narrates scenes without pausing to situate them in context. But when he’s in his most earnest mode—and War, his new book about President Joe Biden’s navigation of the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, might be the most earnest of his career—he exudes an almost atavistic obsession with the gritty details of foreign policy. Woodward is the most gifted sensationalist of his generation, but it’s his abiding desire to be known as a serious person that yields his most meaningful reporting.War gets to that fruitful place, but it begins in unpromising fashion. In the prologue, Woodward remembers that Carl Bernstein ran into Donald Trump at a New York dinner party, back in 1989. Trump exclaimed, “Wouldn’t it be amazing if Woodward & Bernstein interviewed Donald Trump?” The journalistic duo that helped bring down Richard Nixon agreed to see him the next day.Last year, Woodward went to a storage facility and began rummaging through his files in search of the lost interview. In a box filled with old newspaper clippings, he found a battered envelope containing the transcript. That’s the most interesting part of the story, alas. Woodward subjects his reader to pages of Trump’s banal musings: “I’m a great loyalist. I believe in loyalty to people.” Because Woodward and Bernstein were the ones asking the questions, the conversation is apparently worthy of history. This is a goofy, tangential start to a book devoted to the foreign policy of the Biden presidency.The cover, which features a row of faces of global leaders, places Kamala Harris’s visage in the center. It’s another piece of misdirection, because the vice president is a bit player in the story. That said, Harris comes off well in her cameos. She asks diligent questions in the Situation Room. In phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she plays the heavy, asking him about civilian casualties in Gaza. There are no instances, however, of her disagreeing substantively with Biden.[Franklin Foer: The war that would not end]The most revealing Harris moment comes toward the end of the book. One of Biden’s friends asks her, “Could you please talk to the president more than you talk to him? Your president really loves you.” Her boss’s biggest disappointment was that she didn’t write, she didn’t call. In response to the friend’s plea, Harris joked about her strongest bond with the president: “He knows that I’m the only person around who knows how to properly pronounce the word motherfucker.” It’s a genuinely funny exchange, and telling in its way.But these are just MacGuffins: sops to the Beltway superfans. At its core, Woodward’s book is about diplomacy. Just past the sundry tidbits about Trump—most horrifying, the former president’s ongoing chumminess with Vladimir Putin, a charge that Trump’s campaign denies—there lies a serious history of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. I have reported on these stories myself, and I can’t say that I found any faults in his account. If anything, I’m unashamedly jealous of how he managed to get a few big stories that eluded me. One of the most stunning sections of the book captures Putin mulling the use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine—and all the quiet diplomacy that pushed him back from the brink. Newspapers hinted at this threat at the time, but Woodward reveals the backstory in robust and chilling detail. (Jon Finer, the deputy head of the National Security Council, says that Putin’s decision on whether to deploy the nuke seemed like a “coin flip.”) When Biden frets about the possibilities of nuclear escalation, he’s not just recalling his youth in the earliest days of the Cold War. He’s confronting a very real risk in the present.Unlike his predecessors, Biden was distrustful of Woodward. Old enough to remember how one his books helped to derail Bill Clinton’s first term, Biden appears to have chosen not to participate in either this history or Woodward’s previous book, Peril. Having withheld access, the president comes across as lifeless. It’s not that he’s out to lunch—he is in command of his faculties, according to Woodward’s reporting. There are just no real insights into his psychology. His decision to withdraw from the 2024 race came too close to the book’s publication date for Woodward to report on the process that led the president to back away. He has very little to say about the most fascinating decision in recent political history. But in some sense, Biden and Woodward were made for each other. These two octogenarians are both avatars of a bygone era in Washington, when foreign policy was the shared obsession of the establishment. Even if Woodward doesn’t find Biden personally interesting, he pores over the president’s conversations with Netanyahu and Putin with genuine fascination. These aren’t the scraps of reporting that move copies, but they are clearly what he treasures. In his epilogue, he hints at how much he enjoyed covering “genuine good faith efforts by the president and his core national security team to wield the levers of executive power responsibly and in the national interest.”Despite his fixation on substance, Woodward fails to answer—or even ask—some of the bigger questions about Biden’s foreign policy: Could he have done more to bolster Ukraine? Could he have pushed Israel to accept a cease-fire? But Woodward does arrive at a judgment of the presidency that strikes me as measured and fair: “Based on the evidence available now, I believe President Biden and this team will be largely studied in history as an example of steady and purposeful leadership.” Despite the many mistakes of this administration, I’m guessing that Woodward’s verdict will pass the test of time, and that none of the reviews of War is destined for the anthology.

The Daily Beast/Vogue/AnnieLeibovitzKamala Harris has appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine—but could only land the October digital version of the iconic mag with pop star Billie Eilish taking top billing on the cover of the new print issue.Some social media users suggested the photo was doctored to make the 59-year-old Democratic Party presidential nominee look younger.“Makeup magic plus airbrushing like no one has ever airbrushed,” wrote one user. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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As a being made up of billions of billions of atoms, I am subject to certain rules. To walk through my front door, I first have to open it. If I throw my jacket onto a chair, it will move in the direction and at the speed with which I tossed it, and stay on the chair until I pick it up again. I can’t affect the movement of a tennis ball in China by bouncing one in New York.In the quantum world, where physicists study the behaviors of individual atoms and their even smaller parts, these laws do not apply. Particles of matter sometimes act like waves, or move through solid objects. The qualities of one atom can be linked to another’s, even if the two are a great distance apart.Starting around the turn of the 20th century, physicists began to understand that the behaviors of the tiniest bits of our world couldn’t be explained by the laws of classical physics—the type that governs macroscopic solids, gases, liquids, and the forces that act on them. But as the field has developed, it has taken on another surprising role: as a touchstone in alternative health and wellness spaces, used to justify manifestation, energy healing, and other fringe claims and products. The phenomenon is called “quantum woo,” “quantum mysticism,” or “quantum flapdoodle.” It’s both an incorrect appropriation of scientific ideas and a strangely elegant way to explain the psychological forces that push people toward alternative medicine. Many wellness trends reflect a desire for another, contrarian account of the inner workings of the human body and mind—just what quantum mechanics provides for the inner workings of the physical world. Alongside a pervasive interest in alternative-medicine practices and New Age beliefs, more people could be in danger of getting pulled into the flapdoodle.The physicist Matthew R. Francis once wrote that “possibly no subject in science has inspired more nonsense than quantum mechanics.” In some cases, quantum terminology is arbitrarily added to health practices to legitimize them, or to indicate that they are mysterious and powerful, says Christopher Ferrie, a physicist at the University of Technology Sydney and the author of Quantum Bullsh*t: How to Ruin Your Life With Advice From Quantum Physics. “Like calling your dishwasher detergent Quantum, it just makes it sound cooler,” Ferrie told me. It’s easy to find a “quantum healer” practicing within a couple of miles of my home. YouTube and Instagram accounts offer advice on learning to quantum leap; you can read books about falling in quantum love. You can even buy a $99 quantum water bottle “charged” with special healing frequencies or a quantum crystal kit that will help you “clear any negative vibrations you have picked up.”In a 2020 episode of the Netflix show The Goop Lab With Gwyneth Paltrow, an energy practitioner named John Amaral told Paltrow that a pillar of quantum mechanics, the double-slit experiment, shows that “consciousness actually shifts or alters, in some way, shape, or form, physical reality.” What the experiment actually demonstrates is that when photons are shot through two open slits, they can act either as waves or as particles, depending on whether they’re measured. The finding is perplexing—how can matter behave as a wave, and why would recording photons change their behavior? Physicists are still actively working on how and if quantum behaviors might seep into the larger world, but they agree that the human body is a solid thing, and that people don’t act as photons do.Amaral’s comments are typical of quantum woo in that they apply the uncertain state of subatomic particles to people, and expect humans to act as photons do. “By influencing the frequency of energy in and around your body, you can change your physical reality,” Amaral said on Goop Lab. In The Secret, the best-selling manifesto of manifestation, Rhonda Byrne referenced quantum physics to claim that thoughts and emotions are entangled with outcomes in the exterior world. There are parallels in her description to the quantum theory of entanglement—the idea that pairs of particles can have correlated behaviors even at a distance. In physics, energies and frequencies refer to measurable properties of subatomic particles and waves. In New Age or wellness vernacular, these terms are squishier, usually alluding to ambiguous thought patterns, life forces, or chakras—so immeasurable as to be incontrovertible.Quantum physics’ close relationship with mystical ideas has on occasion pushed the science forward. In 1975, two students affiliated with the theoretical-physics division of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory formed the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” which frequently connected quantum mechanics to Eastern mysticism, psychedelic-drug experiences, and telepathy. Their explorations into parapsychology, including getting CIA funding to test “remote viewing”—basically whether one person could receive telepathic messages from another—were a bust. But David Kaiser, a quantum physicist at MIT and the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics, told me that the group’s radical questions about the quantum world and its limits “helped nudge the broader community, which then began to take some of these questions more seriously than they had been taken before.” For example, the group’s thought experiment on entanglement led to the “no-cloning theorem,” which states that certain quantum states cannot be copied. This is now important for, among other things, quantum cryptography, which takes advantage of the fact that encrypted messages cannot be copied without also being corrupted.Crucially, the Fundamental Fysiks Group put its notions to the scientific test, combining Eastern religious or parapsychic ideas with real physics know-how. The quantum wellness and health industry, by contrast, demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what quantum physics is all about. “Quantum mechanics does have many strange and counterintuitive features,” Kaiser said. But quantum states are very delicate, and much different from the ones humans live in. To perform quantum experiments, physicists typically have to put atoms in vacuums or subject them to temperatures near absolute zero. “By the time you get to something that’s a few thousand atoms big, you’re losing the pure quantum essence,” Philip Moriarty, a physicist at the University of Nottingham, in England, told me. “When you get to something as big as a human, there’s no quantum essence left.”Quantum mechanics arose because classical physics failed to completely describe the microscopic universe around us—because scientists had uncovered experimental situations that defied the physics they knew. It suggested that, underneath the world of cause, effect, and consistency, a secret alternative playbook was hiding in plain sight. Applying that hint of fantasy to the world at human scale has proved too tempting for the wellness marketplace—and many consumers—to resist. Deepak Chopra, a popular alternative-medicine figure and the author of Quantum Healing, declares on his website, “You are a mystery that needs quantum answers.” Many people’s emotions and bodies really do feel like puzzles that we haven’t been given all the pieces to solve, so it’s appealing to think that the missing bits exist somewhere in the quantum realm.The wellness industry often reflects larger anxieties around health, food, and environmental safety, Adam Aronovich, a medical anthropologist at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in Spain, told me. It also has a history of using scientific-sounding—but scientifically inscrutable—language to lend itself a patina of legitimacy. Quantum wellness is no exception. Quantum water filters, for example, are enticing “not only because of the quantum mysticism behind it, but because people have real anxieties about microplastics,” Aronovich said. “You don’t have to worry about microplastics in your water if you have enough money to buy this quantum filter that has the approval stamp of Deepak Chopra. It is going to filter away all the bad things in a mystical, magical, unknowable way.”[From the April 2020 issue: Reiki can’t possibly work. So why does it?]The quantum world may be all around us, but humans—and our anxieties—inhabit a classical world. Most people are concerned primarily with how to keep our bodies healthy and tend to our emotional states amid social and environmental conditions that make doing so difficult. These problems operate on the macro scale. We can’t rely on single atoms to solve them for us.

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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Sony PicturesSaturday Night has a compelling concept: Instead of a film tracking the history of Saturday Night Live, which is celebrating its 50th season this year, it's a crazed behind-the-scenes comedy chronicling the night before the first episode ever aired, Oct. 11, 1975.Directed by Jason Reitman, who wrote the screenplay with Gil Kenan, the film is a zany whirlwind depicting the chaos, cast drama, and production issues on a night where anything you could imagine going wrong does. That whirlwind, however, does an enormous disservice: The film completely fails comedy legend Gilda Radner.Radner made an immediate impact on Saturday Night Live with her now iconic characters Roseanne Roseannadanna, Lisa Loopner, and Emily Litella, and memorable impersonations of celebrities like Lucille Ball and Patti Smith. She even won an Emmy in 1978 for her work on the show. When Rolling Stone ranked every cast member in the show’s history, she placed ninth, with the magazine praising that “Radner was the prototype for the brainy city girl with a bundle of neuroses.” Watching Saturday Night, however, you’d be forgiven for thinking she wasn’t even a cast member.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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