What does it mean to find your way—through a city, a life, or a world that refuses to make perfect sense? In ⁠The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise⁠, Pico Iyer travels from Iran to North Korea to Japan in search of peace in the middle of uncertainty. In Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation, Christopher Kemp explores the astonishing brain systems that help us build mental maps and move through space. Together, these books ask how we orient ourselves when the destination isn’t quite clear.

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