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WEBLiterary 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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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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WEB3 days ago · In the Current Issue: Corruption of one sort or another has always appeared to fascinate Caroline Blackwood but this is the first of her five novels to really get to grips with it. In Corrigan, she tries to analyse not just the meaning but the effects of corruption and comes to some surprising conclusions. ‘I’m so interested in Corrigan’, one character in the novel says; ‘I’m so ...
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WEBSubscribe Today! Home » Current Issue ». top. 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 * …
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
WEBBy 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 ...
Sylvia Plath - Literary Review
WEBThe Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I, 1940–1956. By Peter K Steinberg & Karen V Kukil (edd) November 1988 Issue. Edward Neill.
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson - review by Emma Garman
WEBFor her glorious new novel, Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson has taken inspiration from the real-life exploits of Kate Meyrick, a nightclub entrepreneur notorious in 1920s London. But this is very much an ensemble piece, with an omniscient narrator gliding across multiple viewpoints. Freda Murgatroyd, a fourteen-year-old dancer.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo - review by Josie Mitchell
WEBPolyphony requires balance: lines of melody that interweave, supporting each other one moment, competing for dominance the next. In her new novel, Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo employs these qualities to wonderful effect, composing a compelling work of individual voices in counterpoint. We begin with Amma, walking towards the National Theatre, where her play The Last Amazon of Dahomey ...
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell - review by Sarah Crown
WEBTinder Press 448pp £25. There is a scene at the opening of Maggie O’Farrell’s latest novel in which the tone for the tale is set. Seven-year-old Lucrezia di Cosimo de’ Medici – destined to be married at thirteen to Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, and to die just three years later – follows her father, the Duke of Florence, down into the ...
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Elaine Showalter
WEBThis is truly the Balzacian novel towards which Oates has been striving throughout her career. Yet, despite the book’s length and daring, the work of condensation, stylisation and, to use her word, ‘distillation’ has clearly been needed in setting this vast, messy story in an aesthetic context. In an author’s note, Oates explains that ...