CRITIQUE
April 2016
All Edgar Speyer’s good works could not save him amid the hysteria of the First World War
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March 2016
Cocteau’s poetic protégé was a louche literary wunderkind the world lost too soon
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January/February 2016
Berlin’s vast correspondence is a true monument to European, Jewish and liberal civilisation
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December 2015
"English writers have fallen out of love with marriage, and I shared their scepticism — until now."
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