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Literary 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 …
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Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood - review by Sally Laird
This mixture of the absurd and divine is characteristic of Atwood’s stories. A ripple of mirth always undercuts her solemnity. Yet there is real pathos in what emerges as the central theme of this …
Ablajan Awut Ayup by Lucy Popescu - Literary Review
The government continues its offensive on human rights under the guise of ‘anti-separatism’ or ‘counter-terrorism’ campaigns. The latest victim of state repression is Uighur pop musician and …
Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson - review by Nicholas …
Nov 1, 2024 · We Shall Fight in the Buttery. Oxford’s War 1939–1945. By Ashley Jackson. Bodleian Library Publishing 408pp £30. It’s said that Oxford was spared destruction on the …
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen Jian - review by Philip Snow
By 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 …
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
By Peter Ackroyd. Sinclair-Stevenson 1212pp £19.95. ‘To see Dickens day by day,’ writes Peter Ackroyd, ‘making his way, the incidents of his existence shaping his fiction just as his fiction …
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich - review by Zuzanna Lachendro
Corsair 384pp £20. Set in Red River Valley, North Dakota, against the backdrop of the 2008 economic crisis, Louise Erdrich’s twenty-ninth book, The Mighty Red, is concerned with the …
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief by Ronald Hutton - review …
In just under four hundred fast-paced pages, he tracks Cromwell’s involvement in an astonishingly complex and historically contested series of events, confounding any number of hoary …
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst - review by Valentine …
Our Evenings is the seventh novel by Alan Hollinghurst and a wonderful example of what he is so good at: staging richly bookish, hifalutin comedies of sexual errors featuring people coming to …