The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction PB_Gift_Guide to a time very much

to a time very much like our own

Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love

enticing cuisine and restless party spirit

She'd rather read old speeches and hang out with the Sibyls who are on her side-especially Felicity

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction PB_Gift_Guide to a time very muchA revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later. The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine