Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Scribe Publications 2019) Irvin D. Yalom, Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir(Basic Books 2017) Marion Brasch, Ab jetzt ist Ruhe. Roman meiner fabelhaften Familie (S. Fischer 2012) Lutz Sailer, Stern 111 (Suhrkamp 2020) Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century. Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (Verso 1994, 2ndedition…

Hold fast to dreams//For if dreams die//Life is a broken-winged bird//That cannot fly.//Hold fast to dreams//For when dreams go//Life is a barren field//Frozen with snow. With this poem by Langston Hughes I ended my graduation speech in high school. I remember it now as I am pondering how to put into words my feelings and…