PAMELA PAUL:

Sure.

Well, I have spent the entire summer, really actually the entire year, doing escape reading. And I think fall is a great time to reengage. And, luckily, there are a lot of books, a number of books that really try to take on serious topics that have been in the news, the cultural news, political news, social headlines, and to delve a lot deeper than the Twitter feeds and headlines have been able to do.

So, a couple that I'm really interested in are Franklin Foer's new book, which is called "World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech."

Frank Foer was the editor of The New Republic until shortly after it was purchased by Chris Hughes, formerly of Facebook. There was a sort of major falling out between them.

But what he does in this book is not just write a memoir about that experience, but really takes on the issue of how technology has sort of infiltrated journalism, the media and really our daily lives, and what some of the negative impacts of that, those changes are. So I think that's one.

Another book I'm recommending is Mark Lilla's "The Once and Future Liberal," which is a controversial book. Again, you might not agree with all of it, but it's about identity politics. And it's interesting to read that along, I think, together with Ta-Nehisi's forthcoming book, which is called "We Were Eight Years in Power," which is a lot of the work that he's done in "The Atlantic," but it's his first big book since "Between the World and Me."

And I think, together, these books take on the issues of identity, race, class, and also electoral politics.