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The New York Review of Books

The Lingering Delusion

Staying Power

Frantic Realism

A Woman’s Burden

Watteau’s Theater

Falling Off the Map

Alert to Reality

NEW BOOKS • FROM UNIVERSITY PRESSES

Reshaping the City

Speculation in Human Property

No Promises

Mary Shelley’s ‘Hideous Progeny’

The Spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane

Letters