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Robert Fay

The Substack newsletter of literary taste, current affairs, and history’s curious turns.

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    Writer & creator of Literature & Geopolitics, a Substack and podcast focused on literary taste, current affairs, and history’s curious turns. Home base for work on the writer-diplomat tradition. Seen in The Atlantic, LA Review of Books, etc.

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