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You're bored. You need to be jolted—the furniture in your head rearranged. You need to read The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. But first you need to read Virginia Heffernan's profile of one of its authors, the British archaeologist David Wengrow. (Its other author, the better-known David Graeber, passed away before the book's publication last year.) Just halfway through the book, Virginia writes, she was overcome with "a kind of Socratic ecstasy": Everything she thought she knew about human prehistory was … dead wrong. So Virginia spent a few days with Wengrow, following him around to various academic—and sometimes anarchistic—meetups, watching how his mind works. The result is a punchy, propulsive piece of writing, the perfect entry point into Wengrow's world. Jason Kehe | Senior Editor | |
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