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Cover: c Troy Michie, courtesy of Company Gallery, photography by Daniel Terna. Page 34, the Shirley Hazzard Papers, 1946–2010, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University in the City of New York, courtesy of the Shirley Hazzard Estate; page 62, courtesy of Galaxia Gutenberg; pages 67, 77, courtesy of Enrique Vila-Matas; page 72, c Carlos Garcia Delgado/Pickwick Films; page 83, c Hector Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images; page 88, c Jordi Esteva; page 95, c Olivier Roller (detail); pages 112–31, c Troy Michie, courtesy of Company Gallery, photography by Daniel Terna; pages 148–78, courtesy of Antonella Anedda Angioy.

Enrique Vila-Matas, “The Art of Fiction No. 247,” was transcribed by Maru Pabon and translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes. Frank Wynne contributed the translation of Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp on page 96.

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