author: Catherine Lacey
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Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Just astonishing. This book is the most ambitious and layered thing I’ve read in a long, long time. The style of writing is kind of like Rachel Cusk, meditative and conversational, kind of highbrow, but often shockingly direct. It’s full of ideas about history, politics and art, identity, relationships, and a whole lot more. At…