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Top 5 Reads from Arts & Letters Daily [View this email in your browser]( [Was Email a Mistake?]( We check our inboxes every few minutes, wearied by the deluge, yet applaud ourselves for eliminating the need to speak face-to-face. --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Tale of Murder in the Wild]( Where the Crawdads Sing, the “feel-good publishing story of the year,” faces some uncomfortable allegations. --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Story of Siblings]( Simone Weil was devoted to alleviating the suffering of others. André Weil, her brother, was devoted to numbers. He became a great mathematician; she became unhinged. --------------------------------------------------------------- [No Laughing Matter]( Wittgenstein said you could write a whole philosophy of the human condition using only jokes. So what can we learn from the jokes told under Stalin? --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Do We Spend Our Time?]( We overestimate how much we work and exercise, and we're no busier than we were a few decades ago. We just think we are. Copyright © 2019 Arts and Letters Daily, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at Our mailing address is: Arts and Letters Daily 1255 Twenty-Third St, N.W.washington, DC 20037 [Add us to your address book]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences](