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As the actor releases her debut collection of poetry, ‘Pretty Boys Are Poisonous’, she shares the books that shaped her as a thinker and a writer with Vogue – including selections by Bessel van Der Kolk and Richard Bach.

This seems like a good time to read Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s book, The Town Slowly Empties, as the pandemic-related events of 2020 seem to repeat themselves in 2021, only in a scarier form. Bhattacharjee’s memoir harks back to the beginning of 2020, when life as we knew it suddenly changed. Written in the form of a journal, it begins on March 23, the day the national lockdown started, and continues until April 14, when the lockdown was extended till May. The intimate and the unantici...