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Adam Phillips

  • The Poems of A.E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett
  • The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard

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Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.

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