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“... lucubrations: what John Stokes does with such documents as the Ernest Clark letter is what Larry Wolff attempts, using a far higher degree of magnification, with the Vienna press of 1899. His book is an extensive commentary on four criminal trials. He naturally remembers Carl Schorske’s authoritative Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (1980), the book ...”

“... that of Peter Kürten but of many less familiar ones, using a source successfully exploited by Larry Wolff in his book on child-murders in Freud’s Vienna, Postcards from the End 0f the World. Well-chosen woodcuts, cartoons and photographs do more than just accompany the text. Evans understands the theatricality of executions, a quality most ...”

“... start a daily paper to accompany it, in order that the presses would not lie idle during the week. Larry Lamb, the Sun’s first editor, essentially stole the tabloid format of the Mirror, coarsened it slightly, and left out the would-be informative but muddling and tonally uncertain Mirrorscope. The result was that the Sun ate the Mirror’s lunch, and the ...”

“... goes back much further, than the pact at Yalta. In a well-received book, the American historian Larry Wolff charged travellers and thinkers of the Enlightenment with ‘the invention of Eastern Europe’ as a supercilious myth of the 18th century.4 The reality is that from the time of the Roman Empire onwards, the lands now covered by the new member ...”