Edward Timms is the author of Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist and co-editor of Visions and Blueprints: Avant-Garde Culture and Radical Politics in Early 20th-Century Europe, a collection of essays to be published by Manchester University Press. He is a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
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