This episode of Learn Something New, Gal Beckerman joins Michael Quu to discuss his new book How To Be A Dissident. Gal Beckerman is an author and a staff writer at The Atlantic. Before coming over to The Atlantic, whose books section he also ran, Gal was an editor at the New York Times Book Review for six years. He also served as the opinion editor at the Forward newspaper and a staff editor and writer at the Columbia Journalism Review. His writing has appeared in a number of places over the years, including the Washington Post, The New Republic and Bookforum. His previous books include The Quiet Before, which was a New York Times Notable pick in 2022, and When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone, which won two major book awards and was chosen as a book of the year by The New Yorker and the Washington Post. https://www.galbeckerman.com/https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Dissident-Gal-Beckerman/dp/B0G7C2CR4Mhttps://www.instagram.com/galbeckerman/