The Good-Enough Life

“All of us can, quite frankly, use some basic life advice sometimes, but intellectuals tend to shy away from self-help. I think this is unfortunate, especially for people who work in the humanities at universities. Students come to us craving life advice—how to be a better friend, or partner, or how to deal with loss—but they more often get responses like what Harvard English professor Louis Menand said recently in The New Yorker: I’m not a great person myself, so don’t ask me.” Read more...

Five of the Best Self-Help Books of 2022

Avram Alpert, Literary Scholar