The New York Review of Books - USA (2021-12-16)

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Diminished Faculties A Political Phenomenology of Impairment JONATHAN STERNE Stories That Make History Mexico through Elena Poni ...

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Contents 8 Robert Pogue Harrison Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, translated from the Italian and with an introduction and notes b ...

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8 The New York Review Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, translated from the Italian and with an introduction and notes by Mary Jo B ...

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10 The New York Review will graduate from one terrace to an- other, and beyond. The sinners in Hell, by contrast, remain forever ...

December 16, 2021 11 Holbein Capturing Character Edited by Anne T. Woollett Best known for his stunning portraits of nobles, lad ...

12 The New York Review understanding of the causes of human wrongdoing. These new translations all do justice to the tone, seman ...

December 16, 2021 13 LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING “Certainly we cannot go as far as Liveright is willing to.” —Maxwell Perkins to F. Sco ...

14 The New York Review Tongolele no sabía bailar [Tongolele Had No Rhythm] by Sergio Ramírez. Madrid: Alfaguara, 344 pp., $19.95 ...

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