Brian Dillon & Olivia Laing: Ambivalence

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Jul 28, 202669:04Arts

In Ambivalence (Fitzcarraldo) Brian Dillon explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. It's at once a memoir of th...

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