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Scott Bradfield

The Spectator

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Funny, absorbing and as noir as noir can be: Thomas Pynchon rides again

Funny, absorbing and as noir as noir can be: Thomas Pynchon rides again
16.10.2025 2

The Spectator

Scott Bradfield

Books / The subversive message of Paradise Lost

For those of us who have long loved (or hated) Paradise Lost, this is one of those rare and refreshing books that invites us to compare our...

28.11.2024 5

The Spectator

Scott Bradfield

Books / Nothing was off-limits for ‘the usual gang of idiots’ at Mad

As many of us who grew up in America in the 1960s and 1970s learned, Mad magazine didn’t, as our parents warned us, warp our brains – because our...

23.09.2024 10

The Spectator

Scott Bradfield