Shadowlands Selections: June 2024
By the Society for Women of Letters Leadership Council
“Shadowlands Selections” is a monthly column for paid subscribers of Shadowlands Dispatch that features recommended reading, listening, and watching from the Leadership Council of the Society for Women of Letters (Melissa Cain Travis, Julie Miller, Annie Crawford, Rebekah Valerius, and Megan Rials). Every month, we will be sharing the cultural products (books, films, podcasts, etc.) currently captivating our imaginations. Our June 2024 recommendations span television, philosophy, Bible study guides, and fiction for both adults and children. Here, we feature Apple TV’s Dark Matter, Matthew B. Crawford’s philosophical book The World Beyond Your Head, Dappled Things Editor in Chief Katy Carl’s short story collection Fragile Objects, the Bible study guide She Reads Truth, and Jonathan Gibson’s children’s book The Moon is Always Round. Below, we explain our recommendations in greater detail. We hope you enjoy!
Looking back on our lives, we can often see that decisions that seemed relatively insignificant at the time were actually quite crucial. It is clear that if we had chosen a different path at some time t = x in the past, our lives would have taken on a very different character — in fact, we would have taken on a very different character. A new science fiction series explores this by fleshing out the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics where every possible outcome of any given quantum event is physically realized in a parallel world.
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