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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. November 2024, Issue 535 Freya Johnston on Handel’s Messiah * Nicholas McDowell on John Milton * Fiona Sampson on Syliva Plath * D J Taylor on ...
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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.
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In the Current Issue: At the age of thirty-seven William Morris went off to Iceland to reassess his life (or lives) to date. From a sunny, well-heeled childhood – his father was a bill broker who died shortly and luckily before his business collapsed – Morris went to rough-tough Marlborough, where he learnt next to nothing because, he said ...
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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 * …
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson - review by Emma Garman
For 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.
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That ...
W ith The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of course, is most literary criticism. The Real Lolita is, by any measure, a unique and very peculiar book.. The sad real-life story of Sally Horner, as recounted by Weinman, goes like this.
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The Librarian by Salley Vickers - review by Pamela Norris - Literary …
A t a time when library services are being reduced all over Britain, Salley Vickers’s new novel, The Librarian, inspired by a ‘remarkable’ librarian whom she knew as a child, is testimony to the lifelong influence of childhood reading.It is set in the late 1950s, when the Second World War was a recent memory, and success or failure in the eleven plus examination determined the future ...
Experience by Martin Amis - review by A N Wilson - Literary Review
By Martin Amis. Jonathan Cape 401pp £18. This is probably Martin Amis's best book to date. It is miles better than the newspaper extracts conveyed. Yes, it is at times overwritten, strained to the point of self-parody. 'I had a cigarette in my mouth. It pleaded, it yelped to be torched.'. It is hard to remember whether these risible sentences ...
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Elaine Showalter
This 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 ...