Two very good reviews from the New York Review. Cheeky polymath Freeman Dyson on the paranormal and trendy geographer Jared Diamond on Easter Island. Two beautifully-written excerpts (first, second) from Joan Didion’s melancholy Californian memoir (actually, Diamond is professor of geography and physiology – how does that work, then?).
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