Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway - review by D D Guttenplan
D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway. In May 1966, an aggrieved John le Carré wrote to the editor of the Soviet newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta in response to a critical review.Noting that his books were at that point unavailable in the Soviet Union, he set out his stall for the benefit of (sadly imaginary) Russian …
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In the Current Issue: Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women ...
Issue 535 | Literary Review
Dec 1, 2024 · Freya Johnston on Handel’s Messiah * Nicholas McDowell on John Milton * Fiona Sampson on Syliva Plath * D J Taylor on Tom Sharpe * Richard Vinen on Boris Johnson * Pratinav Anil on the ruling class * Bijan Omrani on women in the ancient world * Nicholas Rankin on Oxford at war * Howard Davies on Germany’s economic miracle * Alex de Waal on Ethiopia * David Abulafia on El Cid * Altair ...
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About. 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.
Dostoevsky Under Fire by Rowan Williams
Dec 1, 2024 · Rowan Williams: Dostoevsky Under Fire. In the wake of Russia’s murderous invasion of Ukraine in 2022, there was no shortage of people (not least in Ukraine) who began to ask forcefully whether we should or could go on reading the classics of Russian literature – or at any rate read them as we had been accustomed to.
The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for …
In retrospect, Ted Heath was an odd so-and-so to have become prime minister. Surliness and bachelordom made him an unusual British politico; so did his fervent Europeanism and ambivalence about the supposed ‘special relationship’ with the USA. His interest in China was also an anomaly. It was ...
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The Invention of British Art by Bendor Grosvenor - review by …
You would think that there were dozens of histories of British art out there, along the lines of an art history course I came across titled ‘Caveman to Picasso’. Oddly, there are not, and those that exist cannot always be trusted. This most enjoyable book is an exception. The great period of ...
What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost
While Shakespeare seems to maintain the status of perennial contemporary, Milton does not enjoy quite the same standing. The knotty theological wrangling and offensively strict gender hierarchies of Paradise Lost, not to mention the obtrusive and rebarbative personality of its author, make it an ever-harder sell.Is Milton’s 10,565-line poem …
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In the Current Issue: About halfway through this novel, an astronaut called Pietro reflects that ‘if you could get far enough away from the earth you’d be able finally to understand it’. This is a neat summation of one of the themes of Samantha Harvey’s slim fifth novel, which has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. Stand as far back as you can imagine and say what you see.