Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays Nature_Gift_Guide " — The New York

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“Of every book written by anybody associated with the Trump administration

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We talk endlessly of individual freedom

but what happens when the new Moth Keeper decides to take a break from the moon and see the sun for the first time

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays Nature_Gift_Guide " — The New YorkA glimpse into a beloved novelist's inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and