Literary Review

Literature Collection

Archived since 19 October 1979

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521 issues

Founded in Edinburgh in 1979, Literary Review is a trusted independent source for reviews of new books in history, biography, politics, travel and fiction. The monthly publication is well known for its amusing contributions and excellent editorial written by leading authors, journalists and academics, forming a gold mine for research in past and present literature.

Martin Amis said: "In Literary Review you find something that has almost vanished from the book pages: its contributors are actually interested in Literature."

Latest Issue:

Peter Rose on Henry James * Piers Brendon on Russian spies * Lucy Moore on Josephine Baker * Seamus Perry on William Blake * Anthony Pagden on the Americas * John Guy on King James I * Christopher Turner on emigres * Francis Beckett on Tony Benn * Rupert Christiansen on Victor Hugo * Richard Vinen on General Pinochet * Edward Short on colonial New York * Robert Chandler on Anna Akhmatova * Nicola Shulman on Picasso's lovers * Laura Thompson on Agatha Christie * Nigel Andrew on birds * Peter York on Graydon Carter * Philip Womack on teen reading * Zoe Guttenplan on Sayaka Murata * Paul Genders on Anthony Passeron * Jude Cook on Xiaolu Guo * and much, much more

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