6/25/2023 0 Comments Matt richtel an elegant defense![]() Despite the topic’s staggering complexity and the extensive information in Richtel’s fact-filled coverage, the heart and fine craft of a storyteller emerges most memorably throughout the book. It describes the wide umbrella of the immune system’s astonishing domain: HIV, diabetes, asthma, colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, cancer, infections, fever, overprescribed antibiotics, T cells, macrophages, neutrophils and other vital components. Subtitled “A Tale in Four Lives,” “Elegant Defense” examines the immune system’s history and future through the lens of science, records and research and the case histories of four individuals. He is a reporter at The New York Times, the creator and former writer of the daily comic strip “Rudy Park” and has appeared on NPR and PBS NewsHour. The San Francisco-based Richtel has written several thrillers, but his first nonfiction outing, 2014’s “A Deadly Wandering,” about distracted-driving, combined compelling human narratives with in-depth science writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s one of the paradoxes that fascinates Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel in his new book, “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of The Immune System” (William Morrow, $28.99, 409 pages). New York Times reporter Matt Richtel has written a lot of fiction, but he says he also loves nonfiction “when it has momentum.” SIMONA DEAC/PHOTO The biological system charged with preserving human life, diversity and reproduction is also the instrument which will kill the majority of us. ![]()
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