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Oct 75 minREVIEWSSharing Space: The House on Via Gemito SARAH MOORHOUSE - Both Starnone and Ferrante are interested in our imperfect understanding of others.
Oct 57 minREVIEWSIn the Manner of a Genius: Reviewing Courtauld's Forgery Exhibition PHILIPPA CONLON - ‘Imitation’, we are told, ‘is the sincerest form of flattery’.
Apr 17, 201713 minREVIEWSThe Bedside of the MindInsomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov Gennady Barabtarlo, Princeton, 2017 ‘The most moronic fraternity in the...