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Catch 22

On Stefan Hertmans’s ‘War & Turpentine.’

At the heart of Stefan Hertmans’s gorgeous ‘War & Turpentine’ is the gruesome knowledge that much pain and suffering underpin our beautiful world.

October 21, 2016

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