Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy (Published 2020)

President Barack Obama on a visit to Midway Atoll in 2016. Literature is more important than ever, he says. “We need to explain to each other who we are and where we’re going.”Credit...A.J. Chavar/The New York Times Barack Obama’s new memoir “A Promised Land” is unlike any other presidential autobiography from the past — or, likely, future. Yes, it provides a historical account of his time in offi