Triumphs of Skepticism

Clair Wills recently reviewed A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel, for the New York Review of Books.

“If it is true, as Saint Augustine says, that the dead aren’t absent but merely invisible, then somewhere roundabout, as I write about her and you read about her, Hilary Mantel is present. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that she is present not only if Augustine’s statement is true but if I believe it, or if you do.”

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