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Daniel Swift
January 25, 2007   |    This article appeared in the February 12, 2007 edition of The Nation.
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The narrator of Martin Amis's House of Meetings describes the collapse of his soul through forty years of Soviet history.

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Daniel Swift
Daniel Swift has written for Bookforum, the New York Times Book Review and the Times Literary Supplement.

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Daniel Swift
January 25, 2007   |    This article appeared in the February 12, 2007 edition of The Nation.
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