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A new book brings together ethnography, neurobiology and primatology to argue that how much our species sleeps is an evolutionary trade-off, with lessons for how each of us can sleep better.
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In her new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita challenges readers to join her in deciphering a shameful moment from the nation’s past. The historian Ada Ferrer’s new memoir retells the story of the island ...