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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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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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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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WEBStranger in the Shogun’s City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Amy Stanley. The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives. By Christopher Harding. Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector, and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan. By Alex Kerr.
Levi Roach - Who’ll Take the Helm? - Literary Review
WEBSep 1, 2020 · The sinking of the White Ship on the evening of 25 November 1120 was one of the most decisive turning points in English history. Aboard the vessel was the cream of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, including King Henry I’s …
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris - review by Sam Kitchener
WEBSep 1, 2022 · The ‘act of oblivion’ in the title of Robert Harris’s latest novel is in its most straightforward sense the Indemnity and Oblivion Act introduced by Charles’s government. The act granted pardons – with some exceptions – to anyone who committed crimes during the Civil War, or the Interregnum that spanned the years between the ...
Issue 491 - Literary Review
WEBAlberto Manguel's miracle in Lisbon * David Gelber on Garibaldi in South America * Dmitri Levitin on polymaths * Cressida Connolly on Sybille Bedford * David Blow on America & Iran * Farzana Shaikh on Pakistan * Robert Mayhew on the Enlightenment * Michael White on Boris Johnson * Michael Tanner on Wagner * Paul Broks on autism * Kathryn Hughes on cats * Anthony Cummins on the Goncourts * John ...
Middle England by Jonathan Coe - review by Mark Lawson
WEBThe major creative decision in each instalment of sequential fiction is which old characters to keep and what new ones to introduce. True to the passage of time, Coe kills off one of the known personae, whose funeral appears in the prologue. Happily, Benjamin Trotter, whom Coe has admitted is an alter ego, survives, now in his early fifties ...