Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 48 No. 4

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An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis“Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one,…

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Student, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy: introducing the maverick whose diplomacy saved Europe from war.Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's ambassador in 1604. Yet the most…