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Jonathan Miller New Bio Mixes Insults with Intellect

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Jonathan Miller has committed career suicide so many times, it’s a miracle he’s still working. Kate Bassett’s biography “In Two Minds” reveals why.

Miller, 78, is an opera and theater director, a presenter, satirist, writer, photographer, philosopher, conversationalist, and doctor. The word “polymath” (which he loathes) barely begins to do him justice.