When the pandemic struck, George Packer moved his family out of the city and upstate into the countryside.
The move forced one America’s most celebrated and decorated non-fiction writers, famous for his reporting, to sit still for once – and to contemplate what was happening to his country.
The result is an extended essay, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, a meditation on the crippling division of the nation into irreconcilable political tribes, on to which Packer has added some reflections on the way out of the mire.
“I felt immobilised as a reporter,” Packer said. “It seemed like an essay was the thing to do – just put down
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