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Leo Carey

Leo Carey is a Senior Editor at The New Yorker. (November 2016)

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Elisabeth de Waal, Paris, 1926

Coming Back

The Exiles Return

by Elisabeth de Waal

April 24, 2014 issue

Benjamin Britten, right, with his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, at the Old Mill, his house in Suffolk, England, circa 1943

The Battle of Britten

Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

by Paul Kildea

Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913–1976: Volume Six, 1966–1976

edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke

Britten’s Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction

by Heather Wiebe

August 15, 2013 issue

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