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Volume 66, No. 2 (June 2022)

Reviews—The Stasi Poetry Circle & The Matchmaker

The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War, by Philip Otterman (Faber and Faber, 2022), 201 pages, bibliography, index.

and

The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin, a novel by Paul Vidich (Pegasus Crime, 2022), Kindle edition.

Both reviewed by J.E. Leonardson

Download PDF of complete reviews.

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