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An Open Letter Across Time

by John Raimo Thomas Mann received a curious letter on December 25, 1936. The Nobel Prize-winning author had entered into exile in Switzerland after publicly denouncing the Nazi regime years earlier. Mann’s works had been already banned as “un-German,” despite… Continue Reading →

Why Are All the Costume Dramas Edwardian?, or, History and Popular Memory

by Emily Rutherford When the World War I-era miniseries Parade’s End, based on the novels of Ford Madox Ford, was being broadcast on the BBC, a British friend asked me, “Why are all the costume dramas Edwardian?” It’s true: the… Continue Reading →

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