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David Trotter: Helen DeWitt’s Wits, 15 December 2022

'The Last Samurai’ Reread 
by Lee Konstantinou.
Columbia, 120 pp., £14.99, November 2022, 978 0 231 18583 7Show More
The English Understand Wool 
by Helen DeWitt.
New Directions, 69 pp., £12.99, September 2022, 978 0 8112 3007 0Show More
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“... in 2016 and by Vintage in 2018 has since added a new readership to its original cult following. Lee Konstantinou’s astute and sympathetic ‘rereading’ confirms this incremental canonisation.The Last Samurai has two protagonists: Sibylla Newman, fiercely intelligent, combative, but prone to suicidal depression; and her precocious son, Ludo, whom ...”

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