Several recent books by noteworthy authors are about memory, how it creates character and identity, how it is constructed, and the ease with which it often dissembles and crumbles into dust. Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending,⁠[1] recipient of this year’s Man Booker Prize, is perhaps the best example. One of its many admirable […]

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