Cartooning+

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Once I get the vaccine, I am going to really hit the gym again.

Noreen, I’m an eggplant, you’re a pear.

I first read the prize-winning The Overstory when it was published in 2018. The image of an airman falling out of the sky during the Vietnam war and being saved by a tree is indelible. But like all great literature, re-reading Richard Powers’ epic novel in a changing context opens up new shafts of meaning. So that image — which is central to a novel where...