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Conventional wisdom says don’t choose a book by its cover. But can there be a case for choosing a book by its foreword? We will come to that. Let’s deal with the book first. British poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, who lived in the 19th century and worked as an inspector of schools, said famously that journalism is literature in a hurry. More interesting observations have come on the two occupations since then, none more interesting than Oscar Wilde’s

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