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About Robert Fay

Founder of Literature & Geopolitics, the newsletter and podcast of literary taste, current affairs, and historyโ€™s curious turns. Home base for my work on the writer-diplomat tradition. Seen in The Atlantic, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere.

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