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Is This a Book Worth Saving? Considering ‘The Art of Joy’

'The Art of Joy'

Usually if a book was controversial or never published, we think it worthy of rescuing from the literary dustbin. But a sexually charged Italian novel leaves Lauren Elkin wondering if some novels are best left to history. Read her earlier essay on the opposite case.

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