Emily St. John Mandel

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Emily St. John Mandel can’t stop writing about pandemics

Her novel Station Eleven imagined a world ravaged by a pandemic long before COVID-19 existed. Now, she’s gone through one herself.

19 books you should read this summer

Here are new works of fiction and non-fiction, recently published or upcoming, to engage and delight readers in the warmer months