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The Canadian writer’s works of short fiction illuminated seemingly ordinary lives.
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The books reviewed are, among other books and authors discussed:
How to Think like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna. Grove, 296 pp., £9.99, March, 978 1 80471 002 9 The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy edited by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro. Routledge, 638 pp., £215, June 2023, 978 1 138 21275 6
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