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Dante in Guantánamo

Alberto Manguel

When Dante tortures the sinners, Virgil says nothing.

A few months ago, U.S. President Barack Obama took the controversial decision to release documents concerning interrogation practices in Guan

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Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel is the award-winning author of hundreds of works, most recently (in English) Fabulous Monsters, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions, Curiosity and All Men Are Liars. He lives in New York. Read more of his work at manguel.com.


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