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In the Current Issue: 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 ...
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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, 'next to nothing was taught', and on to Exeter ...
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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.
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
‘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 for control – to see Dickens thus is to turn biography into an agent of true knowledge…’
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Current Issue - Literary Review
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 * …
Close to Home by Michael Magee - review by Dylan Kaposi
Throughout Michael Magee’s lucid and stirring debut novel, Close to Home, the narrator, Sean, grapples with the repercussions of his assault on a teenager at a party.After completing his studies at university in Liverpool, Sean returns to Belfast, a city that many of his peers are seeking a way out of, and attempts to rebuild his life while navigating a plethora of complications.
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<i>Literary Review</i> 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.
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh - review by John Thieme
All of Amitav Ghosh’s writing to date has traced connections across cultures. Sea of Poppies, the first part of what promises to be the great trilogy of Empire as seen from the vantage point of characters who, for the most part, were exploited by its transactions, is no exception. The novel is set during the period when the economy of Bengal …
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Elaine Showalter
A 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.