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November 2016
James Stourton's biography of Kenneth Clark offers insights into a life riddled with paradox
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November 2016
Slovenia's second most famous export, Slavoj Žižek, gets full marks for effort, but his 1970s dialectic seems a bit retro
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November 2016
The last volume of his collected letters reveals Samuel Beckett at his most Beckettian
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November 2016
Chinese literary phenomenon (and racecar driver) Han Han's essays are funny, sharp and wryly self-aware
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