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Her essays and narratives resonate with emotional depth and intellectual insight, making for a thought-provoking read.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"no-document-by-anwen-crawford-9781925818611","title":"No Document","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Document\u003c\/em\u003e is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artworks, effaced histories, abandoned futures. 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