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WEBAbout. 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.
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WEBClaire Harman on female detectives * Georgina Adam on art market scandal * John Keay on the Indosphere * Philip Womack on children’s books * Matthew Parris on the Queen * Thomas Shippey on Vikings * Robert Service on communism * Fiona Sampson on Auden * Miranda Seymour on Goethe * Stephen Smith on Gauguin * Danny Kelly on ageing rockstars * Kerry Brown on Xi Jinping * Roger Highfield on ...
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Bad Relations by Cressida Connolly - review by Amanda Craig
WEBCressida Connolly’s third novel, Bad Relations, focuses on three generations of a family descended from a hero of the Battle of Alma.When it opens in 1855, the 29-year-old William Gale is cutting a lock of hair from the head of his dead brother, Algie, killed in …
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Elaine Showalter
WEBA few years ago, I was talking to Joyce Carol Oates, who teaches Creative Writing at Princeton University, about a poem she had written describing a deer in her garden.
The Leveller Revolution by John Rees - review by Paul Lay
WEBGiven their immense influence on the histories of Britain and Ireland, not to mention the drama and the personalities involved, the civil wars of the mid-17th century and their aftermath are curiously neglected by the public.
Issue 498 - Literary Review
WEBJohn Adamson on the fall of Robespierre * Tim Stanley on Richard Nixon * Julian Baggini on kindness to animals * Tanya Harrod on Sophie Taeuber-Arp * Cal Flyn on retreating from daily life * A J Lees on opium, caffeine and mescaline * Daniel Swift on poets in Mussolini's Italy * Suzi Feay on Nico * Michael Burleigh on statues * Carole Angier on W G Sebald * Patricia Fara on time * Daisy Dunn ...
Experience by Martin Amis - review by A N Wilson - Literary Review
WEBA N Wilson: His Best Book Yet, But Written For Americans - Experience by Martin Amis
1960s | Literary Review
WEBAug 9, 2024 · Knowledge of Sufism increased markedly with the publication in 1964 of The Sufis, by Idries Shah. Nowadays his writings, much like his father’s, are dismissed for their Orientalism and inaccuracy.