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The phrase ‘epistemological assault’ here comes from a talk given by Katha Pollitt at the New York Institute for the Humanities
First published by Jonathan Cape in 2019
Feathered Glory was published in the Paris Review (Spring 2015)
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library