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Review: ‘Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century’ by John Higgs

by Stephanie Wright on July 14, 2015

In his latest volume, John Higgs offers a new perspective on the previous century, paying special attention to its more curious products: as varied as Einstein and relativity, surrealism and postmodernism. Delving into these ‘patches

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