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Kate Zambreno’s latest book, “To Write as if Already Dead,” examines the life and work of the late Hervé Guibert. Kate Zambreno’s latest book, “To Write as if Already Dead,” is a study of Guibert’s uncompromising novel. In it, she wrote, “Every book I’ve published embarrasses me.” After almost a decade under contract, “Drifts,” about writing and Rainer Maria Rilke, was completed after Zambreno gave birth to her first child. Books Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal In “The Last Man Takes LSD,” two authors track Foucault’s late-in-life rightward turn, beginning with a hallucinogenic 1975 visit to Death Valley.