The New York Review of Books

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New York Review of Books

Contributors

‘Competitive Consumption’

Writing the Furies

A Dream of a Great Burning

The Sea, the Sea

Clay

Looming Questions for the Democrats

The Hunter

Language, Destroyer of Worlds

Whips and Vines

Mother-of-Pearl

Making It Big

On Women: An Exchange

The Emancipators’ Vision

No Surprises

A Theology of the Present Moment

Houses of Holes

Adenauer’s Bargain

The Transplanted Ironist

The Trouble with Money

Naipaul’s Unreal Africa

An Unexpected Turn of Events

Missionaries, Merlins, and Merchants

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