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In the Current Issue: Freya Johnston on Handel’s Messiah * Nicholas McDowell on John Milton * Fiona Sampson on Syliva Plath * D J Taylor on Tom Sharpe * Richard Vinen on Boris Johnson * Pratinav Anil on the ruling class * Bijan Omrani on women in the ancient world * Nicholas Rankin on Oxford at war * Howard Davies on Germany’s economic miracle * Alex de Waal on Ethiopia * David Abulafia on ...
Current Issue - Literary Review
Freya Johnston on Handel’s Messiah * Nicholas McDowell on John Milton * Fiona Sampson on Syliva Plath * D J Taylor on Tom Sharpe * Richard Vinen on Boris Johnson * Pratinav Anil on the ruling class * Bijan Omrani on women in the ancient world * Nicholas Rankin on Oxford at war * Howard Davies on Germany’s economic miracle * Alex de Waal on Ethiopia * …
Issue 534 | Literary Review
Richard Vinen on Churchill * Ritchie Robertson on Augustus the Strong * Wendy Moore on Marie Curie * Robin Simon on British art * John Adamson on the Duke of Buckingham * Andrew Preston on Ronald Reagan * Michael Prodger on the Paris Commune * Daisy Dunn on drawing * Stephen Smith on Banksy * Stuart Jeffries on freedom * Jonathan Sumption on Richard II * Donald Rayfield on the Russian Orthodox ...
Issue 523 - Literary Review
D J Taylor on Ian Fleming * Avi Shilon on Golda Meir * David Wheatley on Seamus Heaney’s letters * Sue Prideaux on Monet * Eileen M Hunt on Mrs Orwell * Seamus Perry on Vesuvius’s visitors’ book * Darrin M McMahon on the history of inequality * David Gelber on Austria * Don Paterson on music criticism * Martin Vander Weyer on Elon Musk * Peter Davidson on Proust’s manuscripts * Tim ...
Issue 526 - Literary Review
Stuart Jeffries on Hannah Arendt * Norma Clarke on Thomas Hardy * Rosemary Ashton on death & the Victorians * Richard V Reeves on equality * Jeremy Harte on the last peasants * Charles Foster on animal communication * Jason Goodwin on Istanbul * Donald Rayfield on the Russian Civil War * Kathryn Hughes on brat cats * Tim Hornyak on Japanese gangsters * James Le Fanu on gene therapy * Jude Cook ...
Issue 522 - Literary Review
Dominic Green on how Eastern spirituality came west * Blake Smith on artificial intelligence * Sarah Gristwood on Anne Boleyn * William Boyd on Nabokov * Andrew Hussey on highbrow erotic fiction * Miranda Brown on Chinese food * Valerie Grove on women in work * Rana Mitter on China’s dissident historians * Richard Vinen on postwar Britain * Chris Given-Wilson on the Hundred Years War ...
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About. Literary Review covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction.Each issue contains sixty-four pages of reviews from some of the leading authors, journalists, academics and thinkers in Britain in a variety of fields. It aims to reach a wide audience of readers who enjoy intelligent and accessible writing.
Issue 524 - Literary Review
John Adamson on pre-Revolutionary France * Suleika Dawson on John Le Carré * Chris Renwick on the Labour Party * Norma Clarke on Hilary Mantel * Peter Marshall on Britain’s islands * Stewart Wood on inequality * Simon Nixon on the Barclay Brothers * Charles Foster on road ecology * Georgina Adam on art fraud * Caroline Moorhead on Palestine * Florence Hazrat on slang * Joan Smith on the ...
Issue 520 - Literary Review
Norma Clarke on Fabritius & the Dutch Golden Age * Ruth Dudley Edwards on the murderer Malcolm MacArthur * Sarah Dunant on Isabella D'Este * Robert Gerwarth on the Franco-Prussian War * Rachel Salvidge on the waste crisis * Frances Cairncross on the NHS * Mathew Lyons on the countryside * Heather Brooke on QAnon * William Whyte on the floating university * James Purdon on teaching literature ...
Issue 513 - Literary Review
Gillian Tindall on conservation * Bijan Omrani on Heliogabalus * Carl Miller on social media * Dorian Lynskey on the Nineties * Adrian Tinniswood on artists' studios * Catherine Fletcher on Siena * Costica Bradatan on Christianity * Florence Hazrat on the exclamation mark * Shahidha Bari on tattoos * David Jays on George Balanchine * Patricia Fara on the science of cells * …