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An essential selection of Moyra Daveys sly, surprising, and brilliant essaysIn these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounterwith a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a bookand links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and unlikely connections, until you can almost feel the texture of her thinking. While thinking and writing, she weaves together disparate writers and artistsMary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf, Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, and Roland Barthes, among many othersin a way that is both elliptical and direct, clearheaded and personal, prismatic and self-examining, layering narratives to reveal the thorny but nourishing relationship between art and life.