B i b l i o f i l e

(Publisher: Europa Editions, 2009. 162 pages)
OF TERRORISM, WRITING AND AGING
Set in Italy and originally written in Italian, this novel initially appears to be about someone accused of terrorism (of the Red Brigades variety). Then it also becomes an account of an author trying to write a novel about said topic.
The characters, of which the author [...]

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Edward Larson takes us from the first stirrings of interest in the idea of transmutation, that is, the idea that species change over time, to how Darwin, from his contemplations on the voyage of the Beagle, and later from his readings of Malthus, finally arrived at his theory of evolution by natural selection, which took [...]

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