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High life

Rupert Murdoch has nothing to fear from me

1 October 2022

9:00 AM

1 October 2022

9:00 AM

Harvard man Russell Seitz has sent me an extraordinary present as an object lesson in ‘what a magazine should be in case you start another one’. The paper has yellowed and is dog-eared, pages are falling out and the print is faint. But the Transatlantic Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, dated January 1924, is a joy to behold.

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