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“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
Our most recommended books
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor Frankl -
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
by Richard Layard -
Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert -
Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
by Mitch Prinstein -
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin -
Slipstream: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Jane Howard