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A Year in Reading: Hisham Matar

I just finished writing a book on a month I spent in Siena. There are paintings there that have for a long time exacted a strange pull on me. The book, called , is in part an attempt to think about why these pictures have fascinated me for so long. One of the best books I read on that period is ’s A London-based artist, Hyman is also a curator. He brings to his subject

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