Ronan Farrow reveals the books that have defined his life
(Buy ithere.) Also there’s a polar bear fight scene." And I was surrounded by books as a kid." Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images There’s a passage in C.S. Lewis’Out of the Silent Planetthat has stuck with me. An academic is kidnapped and taken to Mars. The aliens there are sentient otters and find us confusing. One says, ‘When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it....