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Out now! Literary Review's November issue, featuring
@djtaylorwriter on Saki
Joanna Kavenna on Camus and Casares
@darwent_charles on Krasner and Pollock
Michele Pridmore-Brown on having children
@bjkingape on animals' inner lives
and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
For decades, Lee Krasner was cast as the victim of a patriarchy, while Jackson Pollock was flattened into a painterly cowboy in an American art that denied its European debts.
@darwent_charles considers what changes when the two are seen as a pair.
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Great review by @BijanOmrani . Bk sounds vg—haven't read, but agree it shld include evidence for & info abt early Christianity. (Fave subject of mine!). Conquest: A History of Roman Britain by Ferdinand Addis - review by Bijan Omrani literaryreview.co.uk/before-… via @Lit_Review
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For the November issue of @Lit_Review I read Harriet Clark’s comic anti-Bildungsroman The Hill, a memorable novel that took her twenty years to write (previous drafts ranged from a ‘panoramic’ novel with multiple perspectives to ‘terrible Sebald karaoke’). literaryreview.co.uk/inside-…
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The striking November issue of @Lit_Review is now online, with @AndrewSeaton on British Energy, @Ian_Fraser on global trade, Olivia Potts on London restaurants, @TomCook24 on linotype, @andrewtghill on shorthand and so much more: literaryreview.co.uk
Twenty-six men were raised by Napoleon to the rank of marshal of France; only six fought with him at Waterloo.
Jonathan Boff asks whether the marshals’ eventual betrayal was really disloyalty, or simply self-preservation learned at Napoleon's own school.
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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…
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
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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