Growing Into Adulthood: ‘The Anthropologists’ Intrigue, Inspire and Say Something Important About Today
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- The article discusses the attention surrounding the novel “The Anthropologists.”
- Barack Obama listed the book among his favorites, while The New Yorker and Time also included it on their 2024 best-book lists.
Barack Obama helped propel “The Anthropologists” to wider attention when the former U.S. president included it on a list of his favorite books.
That recognition, the article notes, somewhat overshadowed another distinction: the novel also appeared on The New Yorker’s and Time magazine’s lists of the best titles of 2024, the year it was published in English.
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Originally published by Rzeczpospolita in Polish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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