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网页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 central London. October 2024, Issue 534 Richard Vinen on Churchill * Ritchie Robertson on Augustus the Strong * Wendy Moore on Marie Curie * Robin Simon on ...
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网页Subscribe Today! Home » Current Issue ». top. Richard Vinen on Churchill * Ritchie Robertson on Augustus the Strong * Wendy Moore on Marie Curie * Robin Simon on British art * John Adamson on the Duke of Buckingham * Andrew Preston on Ronald Reagan * Michael Prodger on the Paris Commune * Daisy Dunn …
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网页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.
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网页4 天之前 · In the Current Issue: Corruption of one sort or another has always appeared to fascinate Caroline Blackwood but this is the first of her five novels to really get to grips with it. In Corrigan, she tries to analyse not just the meaning but the effects of corruption and comes to some surprising conclusions. ‘I’m so interested in Corrigan’, one character in the novel says; ‘I’m so ...
Issue 525 - Literary Review
网页Will Wiles on modern architecture * Joanna Kavenna on J G Ballard * Rowan Williams on Czesław Miłosz * Pratinav Anil on India’s Maharajahs * Sarah Dunant on Renaissance art * Graham Daseler on war films * David Keenan on Lou Reed * Wesley Stace on George Harrison * Anne Perkins on Baroness Falkender * Norma Clarke on Pauline Boty * Wendy Moore on Eve and women’s bodies * Andrew Crumey on ...
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网页2024年10月1日 · ‘Comet’, ‘meteor’, ‘shooting star’: to his contemporaries only the prodigies of nature came close to matching the brilliance and disruptive power of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592–1628), the dazzlingly handsome royal favourite who, for more than a decade, was the most powerful figure in early Stuart England.
Issue 513 - Literary Review
网页4 天之前 · Gillian Tindall on conservation * Bijan Omrani on Heliogabalus * Carl Miller on social media * Dorian Lynskey on the Nineties * Adrian Tinniswood on artists' studios * Catherine Fletcher on Siena * Costica Bradatan on Christianity * Florence Hazrat on the exclamation mark * Shahidha Bari on tattoos * David Jays on George Balanchine * Patricia Fara on the science of cells * David Anderson on ...
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网页5 天之前 · Linda Colley on constitutions * Kathryn Murphy on Albrecht Dürer * Dominic Grieve on Jonathan Sumption * Norma Clarke on five hundred years of women's self-portraits * Jay Parini on his friendship with Borges * Richard Heinberg on the climate crisis * Piers Brendon on Chips Channon * Andrew McMillan on Thom Gunn's letters * Carolyne Larrington on Beowulf * Rana Mitter on the heroines of ...
Issue 526 - Literary Review
网页Subscribers receive the monthly magazine and access to all articles on our website. Articles marked LR are only available to subscribers. Subscribe Today! Home » Archive » 526 ». top. Stuart Jeffries on Hannah Arendt * Norma Clarke on Thomas Hardy * Rosemary Ashton on death & the Victorians * Richard V Reeves on equality * Jeremy Harte on ...
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网页Posted on May 3, 2022 by Jonathan Beckman. Cressida Connolly’s third novel, Bad Relations, focuses on three generations of a family descended from a hero of the Battle of Alma. When it opens in 1855, the 29-year-old William Gale is cutting a lock of hair from the head of his dead brother, Algie, killed in the fighting at Sebastopol.