“I met Sergei Lebedev … There was something indomitable about him that made me think about an animal that won’t let go of something when it gets its teeth into it."
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Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Magazine
“Settis is an archeologist and an art historian, and here he writes with flash and passion about the present and future of Venice … a grim but downright thrilling short book.”
Open Letters Monthly