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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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WEBIn 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 …
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox - review by Tim Whitmarsh
WEBBy Robin Lane Fox. Allen Lane 464pp £30. Homer’s Iliad, a poem perched on the cusp of recorded history, is as enigmatic as it is magnificent. Like the earliest parts of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Koran, the Babylonian Enuma Elish and the Mahabharata, it exerts its prodigious grip on the collective imagination precisely because ...
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.
My First Book by Honor Levy - review by Ella Fox-Martens
WEBMy First Book is self-referential, unhinged and ultimately transfixing. The motivation of most of the characters – in so far as they can be called characters at all – is well summed up in ‘Little Lock’, an agonised slice of adolescence: ‘I want to be skinny. I want to be famous. I want to be loved.’. Levy’s narrators.
Issue 531 - Literary Review
WEBFitzroy Morrissey on two fabulists * Richard Carwardine on the American Civil War * Jonathan Egid on Pascal * Michael Ignatieff on dictators * Marina Warner on Monique Roffey * Lucy Moore on Mughal India * Michael Bloch on Weimar Germany * David Willetts on the demographic crisis * Orlando Reade on Milton’s afterlives * Helen Bond on King Herod * Elizabeth Goldring on Robert Cecil * Piers ...
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 ...