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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. September 2024, Issue 533 Claire Harman on female detectives * Georgina Adam on art market scandal * John Keay on the Indosphere * Philip Womack ...
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WEBIn the Current Issue: ‘The post-mortem of Susan Jessica Hand who was going on thirteen years old showed the presence in her vagina of semen, saliva bearing the trace of alcoholic spirit, and sheep’s faeces.’ Working from the McEwan paradigm that established the short story as something nasty and brutal these opening lines describe a fairly typical event in the world of Meades’s fiction ...
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen Jian - review by Philip Snow - Literary …
WEBBy Chen Jian. Harvard University Press 841pp £29.95. Few modern political leaders have been more versatile than Zhou Enlai. A journalist and recruiter in Paris in the early 1920s for the infant Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he reappeared repeatedly over the next few decades: as director of political affairs for the National Revolutionary Army ...
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WEBClaire 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 ...
Sylvia Plath - Literary Review
WEBThe Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I, 1940–1956. By Peter K Steinberg & Karen V Kukil (edd) November 1988 Issue. Edward Neill.
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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.
Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood - review by Sally Laird
WEBMargaret Atwood is a virtuoso of the key change, and her range of key is nowhere better demonstrated than in her short stories. At one level, the changes arc effected through shifts of vocabulary: in each story the language of the protagonist – an adolescent, a political activist, a housewife suppressing anxiety through facetiousness – evokes an entire world.
Poetry - Literary Review
WEBThe Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation. By Andrew Motion & Stephen Regan (EDD) December 2023 Issue. Rowan Williams.
The Promise by Damon Galgut - review by David Isaacs - Literary …
WEBThe Uncle Charles Principle ‘entails writing about someone much as that someone would choose to be written about’. In his strange, skilful, spellbinding eighth novel, The Promise, the South African author Damon Galgut modifies this principle. Galgut’s third-person narrator swings, like Joyce’s, effortlessly from character to character ...
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