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\"\"<\/a>John Yau’s thoughtful and thorough review<\/a> of Hank Lazer’s COVID19 SUTRAS<\/a> on the Massart blog:<\/p>\n

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COVID19 SUTRAS<\/i> is full of tenderness, empathy, anger, despair, sadness \u2014 the ping-pong ball of feelings bouncing this way and that. Lazer, in his isolation, slows down all of this so he can examine these states of being, while attempting to understand consciousness and what it means to be alive and alert to this mutating, contagious world, yourself both within it and not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yau compares the book, quite fruitfully, with William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All<\/em>, which was also written on the fringe of a pandemic, the Spanish Flu, which ravaged the US and the world after World War I. Read Yau’s review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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