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Literary Review covers the most important and interesting books published each month, from history and biography to fiction and travel. The magazine was founded in 1979 and is based in central London. October 2024, Issue 534 Richard Vinen on Churchill * Ritchie Robertson on Augustus the Strong * Wendy Moore on Marie Curie * Robin Simon on ...
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Follow Literary Review on Twitter. 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 ...
John Haffenden - Interview with Anita Brookner
Interview with Anita Brookner. Internationally eminent as an art historian and critic, Anita Brookner is author of Watteau; The Genius of the Future; Greuze; and Jacques-Louis David. In 1968 she was the first woman ever to be Slade Professor at Cambridge. A Start in Life marked her debut as a novelist in 1981, followed the next year by ...
Man-Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward - review by Nicholas …
By Richard Milward. This is the sort of novel they say no one writes any more. It is wilfully, indulgently experimental. It is disgusting and violently sexual. It is chaotically metafictional, baroquely footnoted and told by competing deceptive narrators. There are plot clues hidden in the text and embedded in font changes and anagrams.
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William Kuhn on the Windsor family * David Gauke on postwar chancellors * George Prochnik on Kafka's drawings * Helen Rappaport on the father of plastic surgery * Dan Saladino on the future of food * Alan Ryan on Alexis de Tocqueville * Caroline Moorehead on Italian Fascism * Brian Dillon on British documentary photography * Alan Allport on conscientious objectors * Hilary …
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Shop Literary Review Merchandise. Literary Review 500th Issue Postcards | £3.99 A beautiful set of six postcards featuring reproductions of Chris Riddell’s portraits of recognisable literary figures, taken from recent covers of Literary Review.The authors include Frederick Douglass, T S Eliot, Philip Larkin, Sigmund Freud, Mary Wollstonecraft and Franz Kafka.
2020: A Reckoning by Eric Klinenberg - review by Mark Honigsbaum
By Eric Klinenberg. The Bodley Head 464pp £25. In the spring of 2020, New York briefly found itself at the centre of the biggest plague to visit the world in more than a century. The coronavirus ripped through the city’s crowded tower blocks, and hospital emergency rooms were filled with desperately ill patients.
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Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War. By Maria Bloshteyn (ed) Vasili Tyorkin. By Alexander Tvardovsky (Translated from Russian by James Womack) Wait for Me. By Konstantin Simonov (Translated from Russian by Mike Munford) March 1993 Issue. Charles Shaar Murray.
Issue 530 - Literary Review
Peter Davidson on Renaissance spies * Rosa Lyster on Richard Flanagan * Philip Snow on Zhou Enlai * William Whyte on Oxford Dons * Gyles Brandreth on diaries * Munro Price on Belle Epoque Paris * Barnaby Crowcroft on Abdel Nasser * Jonathan Keates on Adèle Hugo * Alex Goodall on theatrical culture wars * Sophie Duncan on queer Shakespeare * Tim Hornyak on …
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
By Peter Ackroyd. Sinclair-Stevenson 1212pp £19.95. ‘To see Dickens day by day,’ writes Peter Ackroyd, ‘making his way, the incidents of his existence shaping his fiction just as his fiction alters his life, the same pattern of emotion and imagery rising up from letters and novels and conversations, the same momentum and the same desire ...