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December 2018 / January 2019
In her biography of Edward Lear, Sara Lodge engages with the contradictions at the heart of a man determined to both express and conceal himself
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December 2018 / January 2019
"The Spy and the Traitor brings out with agonising clarity the danger that Oleg Gordievsky had voluntarily decided to run"
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December 2018 / January 2019
How Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg quarreled in the irritable hothouse climate of the Los Angeles émigrés
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December 2018 / January 2019
In telling the story of Kafka's papers, Benjamin Balint’s new book explores a larger issue: who owns Kafka?
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