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‘I aspire to write for posterity’: An interview with Tom Stoppard

The playwright, 82, on inspiration, growing older and his new play

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Douglas Murray is associate editor of The Spectator and author of The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason, among other books.

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