The Dreadnought

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Mantel's Max

A minor memory, and a regret

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James Robins
Sep 26, 2022
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A YEAR AGO, I had the pleasure of seeing Hilary Mantel speak.

The occasion was a discussion at Conway Hall organised by the London Review of Books – one of those literary/political talks familiar to anyone who goes to these sorts of things: imperfectly ordered and poorly wrangled, panellists roving wildly from subject to subject without alighting on anyt…

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