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Mission to Kabul, a Footnote in Weltpolitik STODDARD MARTIN

Posted on August 27, 2014 by leslie

  Mission to Kabul: a Footnote in Weltpolitik Stoddard Martin discerns a curious continuity in German foreign policy The Kaiser’s Mission to Kabul: A Secret Expedition to Afghanistan in World War 1, Jules Stewart, I. B. Tauris, London, 2014, HB, … Continue reading →

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A Northern Light for Europe’s darkest hour STODDARD MARTIN

Posted on May 1, 2014 by leslie

  A Northern Light for Europe’s Darkest Hour STODDARD MARTIN enjoys a new biography of one of the most admirable – if enigmatic – figures of World War Two THE HERO OF BUDAPEST: The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg … Continue reading →

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Leaving Sneddonland

Posted on July 4, 2019 by leslie

Leaving Sneddonland On Michael Jackson, Margo Jefferson, Granta, £9.99, reviewed by Stoddard Martin It is unfortunate, if perhaps inevitable, that great creators, not least of music, should morph into personalities to be analysed to death, or beyond. Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner … Continue reading →

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Casting Back

Posted on June 17, 2019 by leslie

Casting Back The Estancia, Martín Cullen, Adelphi, ￡20, hb, 399 pp, reviewed by Stoddard Martin As a rule, this reader finds tales of childhood dull. True growing-up happens with first love, sexual encounters, jobs, facing the adult world on one’s … Continue reading →

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Dante’s Wake

Posted on October 12, 2018 by leslie

Dante’s Wake Ian Thomson, Dante’s Divine Comedy; A Journey Without End, Head of Zeus, £18.99, 2018, reviewed by Stoddard Martin Age after age has found Dante speaking to and for them. Ours may be another: we shall see. At present it … Continue reading →

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Seven Deadly Spins

Posted on August 5, 2018 by leslie

Seven Deadly Spins Seven Types of Atheism, John Gray, Allen Lane, 2018, hb, £17.99, reviewed by STODDARD MARTIN The well-known English philosopher and academic John Gray offers a tour d’horizon of the idea of atheism. For those who have trod this … Continue reading →

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Antiquity Matters

Posted on June 10, 2018 by leslie

Antiquity Matters Antiquity Matters, Frederic Raphael, Yale University Press, 2017, £20, 376 pp., $26.00, reviewed by STODDARD MARTIN At first glance, this is a work of almost bewildering erudition. Reminded of Roberto Calasso’s Cadmus and Harmony, one prepares to sit … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Sister

Posted on June 2, 2018 by leslie

Shakespeare’s Sister IN BYRON’S WAKE: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace, Miranda Seymour, Simon & Schuster, 2018, £25, reviewed by STODDARD MARTIN What is it about Bryon that provokes such fascination? His self-possession, … Continue reading →

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Whither Ukraine?

Posted on April 29, 2018 by leslie

Whither Ukraine? THE FOURTH REPUBLIC: Why Europe Needs Ukraine and Why Ukraine Needs Europe, Borys Lozhkin, Kyiv: Novyj Druk, 2016, reviewed by Stoddard Martin It is a principle nearly unarguable in the capitalist West that the ‘shock therapy’ delivered by … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Opera

Posted on April 18, 2018 by leslie

Reflections on Opera What Opera Means: Categories and Case-Studies, Christopher Wintle, edited by Kate Hopkins, Boydell & Brewer, 2018, 288 pp, pb., £15.99, reviewed by STODDARD MARTIN Books on opera abound. Books on Wagner, alone, are said to be as … Continue reading →

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