Some good books I’ve read lately: The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki; Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney; Wave in D Minor, by Laury A. Egan; The Wrong End of the Telescope, by Rabih Alameddine; Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman; The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris; Breathing Lessons, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and Saint Maybe, by Anne Tyler; The Family Fang, by Kevin Wilson; The Plot, by Jean Hanff Korelitz; Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh; The Fault Is in Our Stars, by John Green; The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett; The Rules of Magic, by Alice Hoffman; The Sun Collective, by Charles Baxter; Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell; Normal People, by Sally Rooney; Heaven and Earth, by Paolo Giordano; and Olive Again, by Elizabeth Strout. And soon I plan to read two new books written by Marvin Cohen: Conversations and Versifications and Plays on Words.