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#86: JOHN BOSWELL AND LOUIS CROMPTON. In 1980, the AIDS virus was being diagnosed and a holocaust in small was getting under way; gay...

#85: REBIRTH. Ka, by the Italian writer Roberto Calasso, is a breathtaking and revelatory book. Calasso had hit the boards running in...

#84: THE SMALL CHANGE OF EXISTENCE. The frenzy of battle, the arguments of the gods, sailors lost in a monster-bestrewn seascape; it’s...