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magazine named one of the 21st century's new classics. Her new essay collection, The Hard Crowd
, compiles 20 years of journalism and criticism.
Ditlevsen was a 20th-century Danish writer who died by her own hand. Her trilogy of short memoirs,
Childhood,
Youth, and
Dependency, is becoming the subject of a literary craze. As soon as you sink your teeth in, you'll understand why. The books are riveting. The problem is they bite back. I'm still recovering.
Agostino by Alberto Moravia (1944).
When my son turned 13, my mother said to me, "You have to read Agostino." My mother had previously recommended Moravia's