Gifts for a wonderful life: the best books for this Christmas (I)

Once again, we are facing the gift-giving season. Thank goodness there is the bookish Christmas selection from ABC Cultural critics. Among its bets, the novels that have marked the year, the most clairvoyant essays on the past and the present, theater…

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