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Out now! Literary Review's October 2026 issue, featuring
@n_j_dames on the British novel
Jonathan Boff on Napoleon’s marshals
John Adamson on the Glorious Revolution
@ErikLinstrum on confiscation
Diane Purkiss on small dogs
and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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Another great cover by @chrisriddell50 announces the latest @Lit_Review incl my piece on a gripping account of a true crime story by James Lasdun
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Small, useless and endlessly loved, lap dogs have stood for frivolous femininity and the witch’s familiar hidden in her lap.
Diane Purkiss wonders what our relationships to these animals say about us.
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Roy Cohn prosecuted the Rosenbergs, served as Joseph McCarthy’s chief attaché and later counting Donald Trump, mafia dons and Studio 54 regulars among legal clients.
@joshglancy considers what, if anything, Cohn actually believed in.
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The October issue of @Lit_Review is bursting with good stuff. There's @n_j_dames on the British novel, @ErikLinstrum on the history of confiscation, @FlorenceHallett on sculpture, @josephcoward on Ben Eastham and so much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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My review of Nicholas Mulder's Age of Confiscation is out in the October issue of @Lit_Review with some thoughts on very big history literaryreview.co.uk/states-…
William Paget, born a sergeant’s son, rose to become Henry VIII’s indispensable secretary.
Peter Marshall asks how far a career built on faithfully smoothing a tyrant’s path can really be called admirable.
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Spent my holiday this summer rereading @EmilyMandel and had a great time doing it. I wrote about her latest for @Lit_Review
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I'm on the cover of the @Lit_Review in a drawing by the great @chrisriddell50 ! Excellent review by Nicholas Dames. literaryreview.co.uk/all-the…
Eric Hobsbawm’s autobiography was published in 2002; his widow’s memoir came out in 2019, as did the first biography of the historian. Is there anything left to say?
Richard Vinen weighs in.
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"Biological War: A Scenario" by Annie Jacobsen - review by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (fmr commander of British CBRN defense forces)
Apocalypse Now
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When Donald Trump fired him after just eleven days, @Scaramucci thought his career was over.
Fast-forward nine years and Scaramucci is not only host of @RestPoliticsUS, but the author of a tell-all book. Simon Nixon has a read.
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James Marriott believes that we are living through the ‘Disenlightenment’, where reading has been swapped out for reel-watching.
Is it really that bleak? @N10Egottlieb weighs in.
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With over seven hundred novels to her name, Barbara Cartland could count Princess Diana and Colonel Gaddafi among her fans.
@wendholden makes a case for reconsidering a woman too easily written off as absurd.
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Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister? by Anthony Seldon & Tom Egerton - great review by @ProfTimBale
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Dazzling issue – Kathryn Hughes' review of the new Anita Brookner bio is a superb piece of criticism.
Also, elbowing his way to the front of the pages, is my Lord Thomas Cochrane. 'A Dangerous Game must surely be the last word on a man who was once a national hero.' Out today!
Out now! Literary Review's September 2026 issue, featuring
Kathryn Hughes on Anita Brookner
Richard Vinen on Eric Hobsbawm
@wendholden on Barbara Cartland
Howard Davies on government debt
Andrew Preston on Francis Fukuyama
and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World by Robin Wigglesworth - review by Howard Davies literaryreview.co.uk/betas-i… via @Lit_Review
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Delighted to have review this life of M R James literaryreview.co.uk/no-thin… via @Lit_Review
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Whisp, White Meteor by Ian Duhig, paywalled but you get the idea. A meteor until well into the 19thC meant any atmospherical disturbance, hence 'meteorology'. literaryreview.co.uk/whisp-w… via @Lit_Review
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I’ve got a piece about the new Sebastian Barry #firstnamelastname in the soaraway back-to-school September issue of @Lit_Review - enjoyed it a great deal more than I feared I might literaryreview.co.uk/cry-fre…