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Adam Phillips

  • The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane by Paul Mariani
  • O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber

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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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