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In the Current Issue: Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women ...
Current Issue - Literary Review
Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women * Charles Shaar Murray on ...
Issue 535 | Literary Review
Dec 1, 2024 · 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 * David Abulafia on El Cid * Altair ...
Issue 533 - Literary Review
Claire 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 ...
Issue 534 - Literary Review
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 on freedom * Jonathan Sumption on Richard II * Donald Rayfield on the Russian Orthodox ...
Issue 532 - Literary Review
John Adamson on Oliver Cromwell * Edward Vallance on the English Republic * Andrew McMillan on Thom Gunn * Tanya Harrod on art and motherhood * Alexander Christie-Miller on Turkey * Peter Davidson on Caspar David Friedrich * Stephen Walsh on Tchaikovsky * Douglas Field on James Baldwin * Dmitri Levitin on Andreas Vesalius * Lucy Moore on artistic swimming * George Cochrane on the new horror ...
Issue 522 - Literary Review
Dominic Green on how Eastern spirituality came west * Blake Smith on artificial intelligence * Sarah Gristwood on Anne Boleyn * William Boyd on Nabokov * Andrew Hussey on highbrow erotic fiction * Miranda Brown on Chinese food * Valerie Grove on women in work * Rana Mitter on China’s dissident historians * Richard Vinen on postwar Britain * Chris Given-Wilson on the Hundred Years War ...
Issue 526 - Literary Review
Stuart Jeffries on Hannah Arendt * Norma Clarke on Thomas Hardy * Rosemary Ashton on death & the Victorians * Richard V Reeves on equality * Jeremy Harte on the last peasants * Charles Foster on animal communication * Jason Goodwin on Istanbul * Donald Rayfield on the Russian Civil War * Kathryn Hughes on brat cats * Tim Hornyak on Japanese gangsters * James Le Fanu on gene therapy * Jude Cook ...
Issue 521 - Literary Review
David Edgerton on the global sugar trade * Sarah Dunant on Renaissance beauty * Kate Kirkpatrick on women philosophers * Harold James on world economics * Peter Marshall on Dürer * Damian Le Bas on the Roma in Europe * Valentine Cunningham on modern fiction * Nicholas Barber on action films * Simon Heffer on the English wine boom * Emma Park on free thought * Tim Whitmarsh on the Iliad ...
Issue 523 - Literary Review
D J Taylor on Ian Fleming * Avi Shilon on Golda Meir * David Wheatley on Seamus Heaney’s letters * Sue Prideaux on Monet * Eileen M Hunt on Mrs Orwell * Seamus Perry on Vesuvius’s visitors’ book * Darrin M McMahon on the history of inequality * David Gelber on Austria * Don Paterson on music criticism * Martin Vander Weyer on Elon Musk * Peter Davidson on Proust’s manuscripts * Tim ...