6,669 words
Edgar Mittelholzer
Eltonsbrody
London: Secker & Warburg, 1960;
Richmond: Valancourt, 2017 (First reprint, with an introduction by John Thieme)
Lecktor: “The reason you caught me, Will, is: We’re just alike. You want the scent? Smell yourself.”
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Life at the End of History: Against Nineties Nostalgia
4,673 words
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I grew up in the final years of the Cold War. If you aren’t old enough to remember the Cold War, let me tell you that it was a trip.
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