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The Rest Is History

By Mary Turfah · Los Angeles Review of Books · August 2025

The Rest Is History

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"Mary Turfah writes on Gaza and the limits of the war photograph, in an essay from the upcoming issue of LARB Quarterly, no. 46: “Alien.”"

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