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Reisz, Matthew J.

Matthew J. Reisz is a freelance writer and former editor of The Jewish Quarterly. He often writes on relations between Israel, the Arab world and the West.

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For entries in multiple issues of the quarterly, the occurrences are separated by semi-colons.

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20050901172332 Matthew J. Reisz on presses, Slightly Foxed Issue 7

The Trouble with Idealism

Matthew J. Reisz on private presses

It was towards the end of his long life, after revolutionalizing many other aspects of design, that William Morris embarked on his ‘typographical adventure’ at the Kelmscott Press. Though it survived for less than eight years and was wound up shortly after his death in 1896, it managed to produce 53 publications, including many of his own writings and a celebrated edition of Chaucer in a highly distinctive dark, ‘Gothic’ style. Kelmscott provided the crucial impetus for the four leading private presses considered in an excellent new series from the British Library and Oak Knoll Press.
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Bottoms Up

Matthew J. Reisz on Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London

Vic Gatrell’s book City of Laughter paints a compelling, seductive picture of London in a lost Golden Age – the Golden Age revealed in the hundreds of satirical prints that poured from the presses from about 1770 to 1830. It draws on many literary sources and is illustrated with almost 300 colour images, most from the under-explored archives at the British Museum and Yale (and many never previously reprinted). Vivid, inventive, energetic, savage in puncturing pretension and full of lavatorial and obscene humour, they offer us a fantastic panorama of a libertine London, full of violence, hearty pleasure, uninhibited sex and high spirits.

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