A contest of kindness …

… Jeremy Treglown - The Long Road to Leopoldstadt | Literary Review | Issue 490. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It’s the book itself, though, that made me most happily jealous. The research couldn’t be more thorough. Stoppard’s decade in provincial journalism in Bristol is perfectly evoked, for example: jazz clubs, coffee bars, kids chain-smoking in polo-necked black jerseys. I was one of them and went to some of the productions at the Old Vic that Stoppard reviewed …