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George Scialabba is a book critic living in Cambridge Massachusetts. His reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe Dissent the Virginia Quarterly Review The Nation The American Prospect and many other publications. Scialabba received the first Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award from the National Book Critics Circle.Scialabba was born to working-class Italian-American parents and in his younger days was a member of Opus Dei. He attended Harvard University and graduated in 1969.