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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 ...
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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 ...
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WEBLove Her Or Hate Her. The Essays of Virginia Woolf – Volume 5: 1929 to 1932. By Stuart N Clarke (ed) LR. April 2005 Issue. Peter Washington.
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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.
Dino Buzzati & ‘The Tartar Steppe’ by Joanna Kavenna - Literary …
WEBSep 1, 2016 — Written in 1938, this prescient and disturbing novel relays the trials of Giovanni Drogo, a young soldier who is posted to a remote mountain outpost, Fort Bastiani, where he must watch for the Tartars to invade. Each day, Drogo waits, scouring the barren landscape for a glimpse of his enemy. ‘To right and left the mountains stretched out as ...
Mansfield by C K Stead - review by Francis King
WEBBy C K Stead. Harvill Press 246pp £14.99. INEVITABLY THIS NOVEL, based on the life of Katherine Mansfield, invites comparison with Colm Toibin’s recently published The Master, based on the far longer and far less tumultuous life of Henry James. Toibin selects isolated events, many of which at first appear to be of no lasting significance but ...
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino - review by Christopher …
WEBThey are a serious art form but shouldn’t be taken too seriously. For Tarantino, the two worst decades in 20th-century film were the 1950s and the 1980s, the former because the United States was uptight and conformist as a result of the Cold War, the latter because of self-censorship, artistic pusillanimity and tedious moralising.
The Stonebreakers by Philip Hook - review by Auberon Waugh
WEBFirst officially approved in 1978 at a cost of £78 million, it is still at least three years from completion. This is impressive enough. The fact that the building in all its hideousness has been shrunk to half the size originally planned and will be obsolete as soon as it opens, if it ever opens, is something different.
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