And in fiction, our recommendations include new work from Margaret Atwood, Cathleen Schine and Idra Novey, among others, and a forgotten classic from Alison Mills Newman. Why not add that one to your night stand this week, in place of your phone?Īlso recommended, a book about the science of aging (by Nicklas Brendborg) and a book about views of paradise around the world (by Pico Iyer) we like both of those in the audiobook format, but paper works too. Adee wades through piles of up-to-the-minute research about the human bioelectrical system and how it can be manipulated, intentionally or not if nothing else, it will make you marvel anew at your body as an infinitely intricate machine. I tend to smile indulgently at these people, not necessarily because they’re wrong - I’m no expert! - but because their quest seems so quixotic these days: That ship has sailed, and it has a power motor.īut Sally Adee’s new book, “We Are Electric,” may force me to reconsider.

I know people, and maybe you do too, who shun microwaves and stand well away from power lines and sleep in a separate room from their phones, all on the theory that they don’t want to interfere with their body’s normal electromagnetic functioning.

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