The body, real and imaginary
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The Body Fantastic
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
MIT Press 2021
Pb, 264pp, £24, ISBN 9780262045889
Sometimes you can grasp the essence of a book by its cover. Frank Gonzalez-Crussi’s The Body Fantastic is adorned by anatomical drawings – the bones of a human leg, the stomach of a wombat – juxtaposed with illustrations of the natural world, both real and mythic, from a frog to a squid, to a mermaid.
This arrangement might sound peculiar at first, but it
