Sharp Monica
Literary essays, cultural criticism, and dispatches from Florence.
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- 11
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Who Will Be Left? (opens the original)
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The Italian Stamp Tax (opens the original)
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The Geometry of Harmony with a Face Stylist (opens the original)
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In the Shadow of Fine Art (opens the original)
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Reading Hemingway in Stresa (opens the original)
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