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Hilary Spurling

Hilary Spurling’s books include Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth and a biography of Henri Matisse. Her biography of Anthony Powell, Dancing to the Music of Time, will be published in the US next year. (November 2017)

High-Wire Act

Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898–1940

by Jed Perl

November 9, 2017 issue

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