In the Current Issue: Ritchie Robertson on W G Sebald * Francis Beckett on miners * Theo Zenou on the Pope * John Adamson on the Civil War * Norma Clarke on pink * Nicholas Rankin on Norman Lewis * Michael Burleigh on Huawei * Robert Gerwarth on the Kaiser's collaboration * Pratinav Anil on missionaries and Mughals * Bijan Omrani on Mesopotamia * Miranda Seymour on the Romanovs * Jason Burke ...

D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway. In May 1966, an aggrieved John le Carré wrote to the editor of the Soviet newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta in response to a critical review.Noting that his books were at that point unavailable in the Soviet Union, he set out his stall for the benefit of (sadly imaginary) Russian …

Wolfgang Münchau has, for more than thirty years, been one of the most acute and penetrating commentators on the European Union, writing in the Financial Times, the New Statesman and elsewhere. What I mean to say by that, of course, is that I have often found him supporting my own views and prejudices in language rather more persuasive than I could conjure up.

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.

Reading art history can be like watching paint dry: X studied under the distinguished Professor Y at the Académie de ZZZ. Scandal can pique the reader’s interest – the numberless offspring, the surreptitious machinations to support the artist’s prices. But the details are now likely to be ...

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 ...

Feb 1, 2025 · 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 ...

Dec 1, 2024 · Whither the literary salon? Once there was the Viennese coffeehouse, Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots; now we have Starbucks and Twitter. The setting of Mark Bowles’s intelligent debut novel is poised between these two poles. Café Amato is the favoured spot of Henry Nash, middle-aged academic ...

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T ensions between the public and the private lie at the heart of Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors, a novel predominantly set in Penang in 1921 and immersed in the social mores of the British Empire.Lesley Hamlyn is married to Robert, a barrister eighteen years her senior. Theirs is a polite, passionless marriage, burdened but also sustained by deep silences and long-stored secrets, the two ...