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"The structure of Aqua is the increasingly commonplace one in which some authorial life crisis frames a wider nonfictional inquiry. It is easy to see how this structure promised to support the mutual flourishing of personal and political concerns that Chiara Barzini rightly aims for. The fact that it doesn’t stands as a warning that what was once – back when H Is for Hawk meant Helen Macdonald’s book, not the film – a new, freeing approach might now, in some cases, be a limiting template."