At the Telegraph, Michael Bywater reviews Dario Maestripieri's book on monkeys behaving badly.
(How did I miss Baboon Metaphysics, though?!? Now that is a book I must read...)
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- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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