Review of A Fortunate Age

Steve Donoghue grapples with the initial irritations and eventual pleasures of Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age: "The process that changes your reaction will be familiar to anyone who’s ever been seduced by New York (a sordid, delectable experience that can happen repeatedly throughout your life – and against which there is no known vaccine)."

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Grandpapa England

In The King's Speech, King George V is depicted as a fanatical tyrant; but his legacy is one of dignified flexibility in the face of revolutionary changes, and his temperament may have helped save the monarchy

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