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Thomas Mann openly converted from a chauvinistic rejection of all politics in Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (1918) to ...

On The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom, by David Woodman.

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Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, a mythical tetralogy with an ambition to relate nothing less than the creation and destruction ...

Rusalka’s watery realm, accordingly, is a basement with leaky pipes, where she is kept with other creatures, perhaps her ...

But on balance I think that the late Australian philosopher David Stove was right: the leading characteristic of the Left it ...

A review of Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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