![]() ![]() Here the gold standard remains Primo Levi, whose memoir ''The Periodic Table'' drew on ideas from chemistry to illumine a young man's moral development. The second way of getting science into literature is to be a scientist who happens to have a literary gift. For a long time, John Updike was the shining example here - remember Ken, the anxiety-ridden biochemist in ''Couples,'' or Myron, the loudmouthed particle physicist in ''Roger's Version''? More recently, the standout has been Richard Powers, who has put so much science into his undeniably brilliant novels - the genetic code in ''The Gold Bug Variations,'' artificial intelligence in ''Galatea 2.2'' - that some critics have accused him of laying it on with a trowel. ![]() The first is to be a writer of literature with a grasp of science. How do you get science into literature? (Let's skip the argument over whether this is a good thing to do.) There would seem to be two different ways. ![]() ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN ROMANTIC INTERACTION ![]()
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