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Good memoir-writing should also be self-critical

Anne Applebaum falls out with old friends on the right but doesn’t reflect on what she might have got wrong

Anne Applebaum with her husband Radek Sikorski in Warsaw in 2010. Alamy 
issue 25 July 2020
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