3 books to bring you joy

Plus The Great Gatsby hits the public domain and why "Orwellian" means nothing

Hey, readers!

I feel like so many of us hit a wall this week. I’ve heard from quite a few friends that the past few days have have felt heavy and brutal—and I’m in the same boat. Even though we knew that turning the calendar to 2021 wasn’t going to instantaneously fix everything haunting us from 2020, I think many of us had hope that it would feel like a…