AutoportraitIn this brilliant and sobering self portrait, douard Lev hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. Autoportrait is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. Beyond "sincerity," Lev works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for crudeness, triviality, even banality: the author has stripped himself bare. With the force of a set of

is the logic of the process by which these morally strict anti-usury deterrents transmuted over time to accommodate the more permissive financial practices we see today

building a practice that grew into an empire

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The essays include previously unpublished and untranslated material drawn from half a century of engagement with the works of European and American authors

I was free

Joe Sacco immerses himself in the daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis

and plots his eventual landing into the barren fields of the latter

and Oscar Wilde

and Borges the regular columnist for the Argentine equivalent of the Ladies’ Home Journal

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mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend

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