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Modest and Misunderstood

Ferdinand Mount: Wretched Strangers, 24 September 2026

Think of England: Nation, People and Race in the English Imagination 
by Paul Kléber Monod.
Cambridge, 396 pp., £35, February, 978 1 009 65229 2
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The Shortest History of Migration 
by Ian Goldin.
Old Street, 272 pp., £9.99, March 2025, 978 1 913083 73 1
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Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century 
by Ece Temelkuran.
Canongate, 256 pp., £11.99, April, 978 1 83726 204 5
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... enforced, even where passports existed.As​ a refresher course in historical reality, I recommend Ian Goldin’s Shortest History of Migration. Goldin is a multiple migrant, his family originally from Lithuania, he himself finishing up in England, via South Africa, France and the US. Had his parents and grandparents ...

My Heroin Christmas

Terry Castle: Art Pepper and Me, 18 December 2003

... can see some of the tattoos in the super-grotty ex-felon pic of him – a cadaverous Nan Goldin-style mug shot – on the cover of Art Pepper: Living Legend (1975).The story has the teensiest little glimmer of a happy ending. After hitting the skids yet again, rupturing his spleen on stage (he’d started playing intermittently with the Buddy Rich ...

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