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To thine eyes

GOD: AN ANATOMY, by Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Picador, $37.99)

es, you read the title correctly. This is a study of the shape of God’s body, from the feet up, and it is a gripping read. I imagine that the audio was superb, too, for the book began as a series of lectures on Radio 4 in the UK. I propose it next be a TV documentary, as the coloured illustrations in the paperback I found

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