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LITERARY REVIEW
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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
AMONG THE MOSQUES: A JOURNEY ACROSS MUSLIM BRITAIN BY ED Bloomsbury 352pp £18.99 order from our bookshop. In his new book, Ed Husain takes the temperature of Muslim Britain by visiting mosques in ten cities across the UK at Friday prayers. There are 3.4 million British Muslims, divided by culture, theology and class as well as temperament, and many rarely attend Friday prayers since they areeither
SNAKES AND LADDERS: THE GREAT BRITISH SOCIAL MOBILITY MYTHAUTHOR:ROBERT COLLS
In literature, the ‘working-class hero’ was defined by his upward mobility into the ranks of people he did not much like, and there the fun began. In Snakes and Ladders, Selina Todd says these partisans of the kitchen sink clung tenaciously to their working-class roots. In truth, it was their working-class roots that clung tenaciously tothem.
THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. DAY OF THE ASSASSINS: A HISTORY OF POLITICAL MURDER BY The work Day of the Assassins persistently recalls is neither historical nor literary but a film, Alan Clarke’s Elephant, a dourly brilliant realistic album of sectarian assassinations in Belfast. The cumulative effect, heightened by Steadicam, is thrillingly gruesome and stomach-churning. So it is with Burleigh’s book. THE KILLING KIND BY JANE CASEY; SIXTEEN HORSES BY GREG Jane Casey has moved on from her Maeve Kerrigan series to produce a stand-alone novel with a junior barrister as the first-person narrator. Three years before the novel opens, Ingrid Lewis was defending a man on a charge of stalking and having to use her skillsto
STALIN’S WAR BY SEAN MCMEEKIN By Sean McMeekin. Allen Lane 848pp £40 order from our bookshop. It has been open season on Stalin for some time now. The limited view of the Soviet leader available before 1990 has given way to a fuller image of a cynical, manipulative and cruel despot at the heart of the Soviet Union’s remarkable transformation from a relatively backward CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BYAUTHOR: JAMESWOMACK
The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
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NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, anLITERARY REVIEW
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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
AMONG THE MOSQUES: A JOURNEY ACROSS MUSLIM BRITAIN BY ED Bloomsbury 352pp £18.99 order from our bookshop. In his new book, Ed Husain takes the temperature of Muslim Britain by visiting mosques in ten cities across the UK at Friday prayers. There are 3.4 million British Muslims, divided by culture, theology and class as well as temperament, and many rarely attend Friday prayers since they areeither
SNAKES AND LADDERS: THE GREAT BRITISH SOCIAL MOBILITY MYTHAUTHOR:ROBERT COLLS
In literature, the ‘working-class hero’ was defined by his upward mobility into the ranks of people he did not much like, and there the fun began. In Snakes and Ladders, Selina Todd says these partisans of the kitchen sink clung tenaciously to their working-class roots. In truth, it was their working-class roots that clung tenaciously tothem.
THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. DAY OF THE ASSASSINS: A HISTORY OF POLITICAL MURDER BY The work Day of the Assassins persistently recalls is neither historical nor literary but a film, Alan Clarke’s Elephant, a dourly brilliant realistic album of sectarian assassinations in Belfast. The cumulative effect, heightened by Steadicam, is thrillingly gruesome and stomach-churning. So it is with Burleigh’s book. THE KILLING KIND BY JANE CASEY; SIXTEEN HORSES BY GREG Jane Casey has moved on from her Maeve Kerrigan series to produce a stand-alone novel with a junior barrister as the first-person narrator. Three years before the novel opens, Ingrid Lewis was defending a man on a charge of stalking and having to use her skillsto
STALIN’S WAR BY SEAN MCMEEKIN By Sean McMeekin. Allen Lane 848pp £40 order from our bookshop. It has been open season on Stalin for some time now. The limited view of the Soviet leader available before 1990 has given way to a fuller image of a cynical, manipulative and cruel despot at the heart of the Soviet Union’s remarkable transformation from a relatively backward CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BYAUTHOR: JAMESWOMACK
The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF BOB DYLAN: VOLUME 1, 1941–1966 David Keenan: The Truth it is a-Changin’ - The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Volume 1, 1941–1966 – A Restless, Hungry Feeling by ClintonHeylin
NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, anLITERARY REVIEW
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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
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DOVES OF WAR: FOUR WOMEN OF SPAIN BY PAUL PRESTON This book is a magnificent achievement. By examining the lives of four women caught up in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9, Professor Preston casts a fresh light on the bitter struggle between the Nationalist rebels and the defenders of the legal, democratic Republic, and also on the domestic faction fights that bedevilled each side. BLOOMSBURY STUD: THE LIFE OF STEPHEN ‘TOMMY’ TOMLIN BY Piers Torday: He Slept His Way to the Bottom - Bloomsbury Stud: The Life of Stephen ‘Tommy’ Tomlin by Michael Bloch & Susan Fox KLARA AND THE SUN BY KAZUO ISHIGURO Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel since being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature – put me in mind of this story, partly because it considers artificial life, lost children and parental grief, but also because it seems to occupy that same space at the intersection of philosophy and fairy tale.LITERARY REVIEW
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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
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BLOOMSBURY STUD: THE LIFE OF STEPHEN ‘TOMMY’ TOMLIN BY Piers Torday: He Slept His Way to the Bottom - Bloomsbury Stud: The Life of Stephen ‘Tommy’ Tomlin by Michael Bloch & Susan Fox MINGUS, A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY BY BRIAN PRIESTLEY Quartet 308pp £13.95 order from our bookshop. For some readers, perhaps the name of Charles Mingus will shake free a chain of recollection undisturbed in twenty years: coffee bars, beatniks, baggy sweaters, leather sandals, the solemnised union of jazz and poetry, a world whose high priests included the three ‘M’s: Miles and Monkand Mingus.
THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, an CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
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Summer is not quite that. This is a novel with, it is fair to say, a point of view. The story this time focuses on the Greenlaw family in Brighton: mother Grace, sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha, thirteen-year-old son Robert. Their father, Jeff, doesn’t feature directly in the story but lives next door with his new partner. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFFREY HILL An Interview with Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey Hill is, in the opinion of many, the best poet now writing in England, though he is not the best known. He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932, the only child of a police constable. After reading English at Keble College, Oxford, he was for many years a lecturer at Leeds University, becomingLITERARY REVIEW
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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
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Sarah Watling on antiquaries * Jonathan Meades on assassins * Joanna Walters on the Sacklers * Simon King on private spies * Mark Mulholland on utopians * Max Norman on Garibaldi's progress * John Burnside on George Mackay Brown * Lawrence Freedman on the Cuban Missile Crisis * Freya Johnston on Grub Street intrigue * Simon Cartledge on Hong Kong * Jane O'Grady on David SNAKES AND LADDERS: THE GREAT BRITISH SOCIAL MOBILITY MYTH In literature, the ‘working-class hero’ was defined by his upward mobility into the ranks of people he did not much like, and there the fun began. In Snakes and Ladders, Selina Todd says these partisans of the kitchen sink clung tenaciously to their working-class roots. In truth, it was their working-class roots that clung tenaciously tothem.
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THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, an CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
SUMMER BY ALI SMITH
Summer is not quite that. This is a novel with, it is fair to say, a point of view. The story this time focuses on the Greenlaw family in Brighton: mother Grace, sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha, thirteen-year-old son Robert. Their father, Jeff, doesn’t feature directly in the story but lives next door with his new partner. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFFREY HILL An Interview with Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey Hill is, in the opinion of many, the best poet now writing in England, though he is not the best known. He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932, the only child of a police constable. After reading English at Keble College, Oxford, he was for many years a lecturer at Leeds University, becoming SUBSCRIBE | LITERARY REVIEW Subscribe to Literary Review today and enjoy: Eleven illustrated issues per year, delivered to your letterbox. Bumper double issue for December and January. Unlimited access to the website online archive, extending back to 1979. Unlimited access to the Literary ReviewMY SUBSCRIPTION
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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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
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THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, an CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
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Summer is not quite that. This is a novel with, it is fair to say, a point of view. The story this time focuses on the Greenlaw family in Brighton: mother Grace, sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha, thirteen-year-old son Robert. Their father, Jeff, doesn’t feature directly in the story but lives next door with his new partner. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFFREY HILL An Interview with Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey Hill is, in the opinion of many, the best poet now writing in England, though he is not the best known. He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932, the only child of a police constable. After reading English at Keble College, Oxford, he was for many years a lecturer at Leeds University, becomingLITERARY REVIEW
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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
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Sarah Watling on antiquaries * Jonathan Meades on assassins * Joanna Walters on the Sacklers * Simon King on private spies * Mark Mulholland on utopians * Max Norman on Garibaldi's progress * John Burnside on George Mackay Brown * Lawrence Freedman on the Cuban Missile Crisis * Freya Johnston on Grub Street intrigue * Simon Cartledge on Hong Kong * Jane O'Grady on David SNAKES AND LADDERS: THE GREAT BRITISH SOCIAL MOBILITY MYTH In literature, the ‘working-class hero’ was defined by his upward mobility into the ranks of people he did not much like, and there the fun began. In Snakes and Ladders, Selina Todd says these partisans of the kitchen sink clung tenaciously to their working-class roots. In truth, it was their working-class roots that clung tenaciously tothem.
BLOOMSBURY STUD: THE LIFE OF STEPHEN ‘TOMMY’ TOMLIN BY Piers Torday: He Slept His Way to the Bottom - Bloomsbury Stud: The Life of Stephen ‘Tommy’ Tomlin by Michael Bloch & Susan Fox MINGUS, A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY BY BRIAN PRIESTLEY Quartet 308pp £13.95 order from our bookshop. For some readers, perhaps the name of Charles Mingus will shake free a chain of recollection undisturbed in twenty years: coffee bars, beatniks, baggy sweaters, leather sandals, the solemnised union of jazz and poetry, a world whose high priests included the three ‘M’s: Miles and Monkand Mingus.
THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, an CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
SUMMER BY ALI SMITH
Summer is not quite that. This is a novel with, it is fair to say, a point of view. The story this time focuses on the Greenlaw family in Brighton: mother Grace, sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha, thirteen-year-old son Robert. Their father, Jeff, doesn’t feature directly in the story but lives next door with his new partner. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFFREY HILL An Interview with Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey Hill is, in the opinion of many, the best poet now writing in England, though he is not the best known. He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932, the only child of a police constable. After reading English at Keble College, Oxford, he was for many years a lecturer at Leeds University, becoming SUBSCRIBE | LITERARY REVIEW Subscribe to Literary Review today and enjoy: Eleven illustrated issues per year, delivered to your letterbox. Bumper double issue for December and January. Unlimited access to the website online archive, extending back to 1979. Unlimited access to the Literary ReviewMY SUBSCRIPTION
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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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
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Sarah Watling on antiquaries * Jonathan Meades on assassins * Joanna Walters on the Sacklers * Simon King on private spies * Mark Mulholland on utopians * Max Norman on Garibaldi's progress * John Burnside on George Mackay Brown * Lawrence Freedman on the Cuban Missile Crisis * Freya Johnston on Grub Street intrigue * Simon Cartledge on Hong Kong * Jane O'Grady on David SNAKES AND LADDERS: THE GREAT BRITISH SOCIAL MOBILITY MYTH In literature, the ‘working-class hero’ was defined by his upward mobility into the ranks of people he did not much like, and there the fun began. In Snakes and Ladders, Selina Todd says these partisans of the kitchen sink clung tenaciously to their working-class roots. In truth, it was their working-class roots that clung tenaciously tothem.
BLOOMSBURY STUD: THE LIFE OF STEPHEN ‘TOMMY’ TOMLIN BY Piers Torday: He Slept His Way to the Bottom - Bloomsbury Stud: The Life of Stephen ‘Tommy’ Tomlin by Michael Bloch & Susan Fox MINGUS, A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY BY BRIAN PRIESTLEY Quartet 308pp £13.95 order from our bookshop. For some readers, perhaps the name of Charles Mingus will shake free a chain of recollection undisturbed in twenty years: coffee bars, beatniks, baggy sweaters, leather sandals, the solemnised union of jazz and poetry, a world whose high priests included the three ‘M’s: Miles and Monkand Mingus.
THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, an CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
SUMMER BY ALI SMITH
Summer is not quite that. This is a novel with, it is fair to say, a point of view. The story this time focuses on the Greenlaw family in Brighton: mother Grace, sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha, thirteen-year-old son Robert. Their father, Jeff, doesn’t feature directly in the story but lives next door with his new partner. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFFREY HILL An Interview with Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey Hill is, in the opinion of many, the best poet now writing in England, though he is not the best known. He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932, the only child of a police constable. After reading English at Keble College, Oxford, he was for many years a lecturer at Leeds University, becomingLITERARY REVIEW
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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
CURRENT ISSUE
Sarah Watling on antiquaries * Jonathan Meades on assassins * Joanna Walters on the Sacklers * Simon King on private spies * Mark Mulholland on utopians * Max Norman on Garibaldi's progress * John Burnside on George Mackay Brown * Lawrence Freedman on the Cuban Missile Crisis * Freya Johnston on Grub Street intrigue * Simon Cartledge on Hong Kong * Jane O'Grady on David SNAKES AND LADDERS: THE GREAT BRITISH SOCIAL MOBILITY MYTH In literature, the ‘working-class hero’ was defined by his upward mobility into the ranks of people he did not much like, and there the fun began. In Snakes and Ladders, Selina Todd says these partisans of the kitchen sink clung tenaciously to their working-class roots. In truth, it was their working-class roots that clung tenaciously tothem.
BLOOMSBURY STUD: THE LIFE OF STEPHEN ‘TOMMY’ TOMLIN BY Piers Torday: He Slept His Way to the Bottom - Bloomsbury Stud: The Life of Stephen ‘Tommy’ Tomlin by Michael Bloch & Susan Fox MINGUS, A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY BY BRIAN PRIESTLEY Quartet 308pp £13.95 order from our bookshop. For some readers, perhaps the name of Charles Mingus will shake free a chain of recollection undisturbed in twenty years: coffee bars, beatniks, baggy sweaters, leather sandals, the solemnised union of jazz and poetry, a world whose high priests included the three ‘M’s: Miles and Monkand Mingus.
THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, an CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
SUMMER BY ALI SMITH
Summer is not quite that. This is a novel with, it is fair to say, a point of view. The story this time focuses on the Greenlaw family in Brighton: mother Grace, sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha, thirteen-year-old son Robert. Their father, Jeff, doesn’t feature directly in the story but lives next door with his new partner. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFFREY HILL An Interview with Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey Hill is, in the opinion of many, the best poet now writing in England, though he is not the best known. He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932, the only child of a police constable. After reading English at Keble College, Oxford, he was for many years a lecturer at Leeds University, becoming SUBSCRIBE | LITERARY REVIEW Subscribe to Literary Review today and enjoy: Eleven illustrated issues per year, delivered to your letterbox. Bumper double issue for December and January. Unlimited access to the website online archive, extending back to 1979. Unlimited access to the Literary ReviewMY SUBSCRIPTION
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In the Current Issue: On the first occasion I met Martin Amis I was impelled to thrust a single upturned finger in his direction. He was out, leg before, victim of a googly delivered by a coke-crazed Australian clad in luminescent jeans. It was a dubious decision, and the author of Money gave me a disdainful leer. More recently, I went to visit him in the flat off Notting Hill where he goes to DAY OF THE ASSASSINS: A HISTORY OF POLITICAL MURDER BY In times like these we have to rue that Britain has only a paltry tradition of political assassination. This, I’d propose, is not a mark of civilisation but of timidity and the eschewal of realpolitik. DANCING ON ROPES: TRANSLATORS AND THE BALANCE OF HISTORY Should interpreters have agency? Should they let their choice of words influence the course of events? Thus muses veteran translator Anna Aslanyan at the start of her engaging new book Dancing on Ropes.It’s a question many interpreters must ask themselves as 18TH CENTURY & WRITING Book Reviews by subject: 18th Century & Writing June 2021 Issue Freya Johnston A Writer’s Revenge The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller inGrub Street
21ST CENTURY & WOMEN IN HISTORY Book Reviews by subject: 21st Century & Women in history June 2021 Issue Frances Cairncross They Fought to Report Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line 19TH CENTURY & ARCTIC Book Reviews by subject: 19th Century & Arctic June 2021 Issue Dan Richards On the Rocks Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic NightDAVID ANNAND
'The two men, as Rogers amply demonstrates, had a good deal of grubbiness and roguery in common.' Freya Johnston tells the sensational story of Alexander SAM BETT | AUTHOR TAGS | LITERARY REVIEW Reviews of books by Sam Bett From the June 2021 Issue School of Hard Knocks Heaven By Mieko Kawakami (Translated from Japanese by Sam Bett& David Boyd)
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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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
CURRENT ISSUE
Sarah Watling on antiquaries * Jonathan Meades on assassins * Joanna Walters on the Sacklers * Simon King on private spies * Mark Mulholland on utopians * Max Norman on Garibaldi's progress * John Burnside on George Mackay Brown * Lawrence Freedman on the Cuban Missile Crisis * Freya Johnston on Grub Street intrigue * Simon Cartledge on Hong Kong * Jane O'Grady on David SNAKES AND LADDERS: THE GREAT BRITISH SOCIAL MOBILITY MYTH In literature, the ‘working-class hero’ was defined by his upward mobility into the ranks of people he did not much like, and there the fun began. In Snakes and Ladders, Selina Todd says these partisans of the kitchen sink clung tenaciously to their working-class roots. In truth, it was their working-class roots that clung tenaciously tothem.
BLOOMSBURY STUD: THE LIFE OF STEPHEN ‘TOMMY’ TOMLIN BY Piers Torday: He Slept His Way to the Bottom - Bloomsbury Stud: The Life of Stephen ‘Tommy’ Tomlin by Michael Bloch & Susan Fox MINGUS, A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY BY BRIAN PRIESTLEY Quartet 308pp £13.95 order from our bookshop. For some readers, perhaps the name of Charles Mingus will shake free a chain of recollection undisturbed in twenty years: coffee bars, beatniks, baggy sweaters, leather sandals, the solemnised union of jazz and poetry, a world whose high priests included the three ‘M’s: Miles and Monkand Mingus.
THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, an CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
SUMMER BY ALI SMITH
Summer is not quite that. This is a novel with, it is fair to say, a point of view. The story this time focuses on the Greenlaw family in Brighton: mother Grace, sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha, thirteen-year-old son Robert. Their father, Jeff, doesn’t feature directly in the story but lives next door with his new partner. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFFREY HILL An Interview with Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey Hill is, in the opinion of many, the best poet now writing in England, though he is not the best known. He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932, the only child of a police constable. After reading English at Keble College, Oxford, he was for many years a lecturer at Leeds University, becomingLITERARY REVIEW
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 London. May 2021, Issue 496 Dmitri Levitin on Dante * Tanya Harrod on Barbara Hepworth * Jonathan Sumption on catastrophe * Caroline Moorehead onNapoleon's love
CURRENT ISSUE
Sarah Watling on antiquaries * Jonathan Meades on assassins * Joanna Walters on the Sacklers * Simon King on private spies * Mark Mulholland on utopians * Max Norman on Garibaldi's progress * John Burnside on George Mackay Brown * Lawrence Freedman on the Cuban Missile Crisis * Freya Johnston on Grub Street intrigue * Simon Cartledge on Hong Kong * Jane O'Grady on David SNAKES AND LADDERS: THE GREAT BRITISH SOCIAL MOBILITY MYTH In literature, the ‘working-class hero’ was defined by his upward mobility into the ranks of people he did not much like, and there the fun began. In Snakes and Ladders, Selina Todd says these partisans of the kitchen sink clung tenaciously to their working-class roots. In truth, it was their working-class roots that clung tenaciously tothem.
BLOOMSBURY STUD: THE LIFE OF STEPHEN ‘TOMMY’ TOMLIN BY Piers Torday: He Slept His Way to the Bottom - Bloomsbury Stud: The Life of Stephen ‘Tommy’ Tomlin by Michael Bloch & Susan Fox MINGUS, A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY BY BRIAN PRIESTLEY Quartet 308pp £13.95 order from our bookshop. For some readers, perhaps the name of Charles Mingus will shake free a chain of recollection undisturbed in twenty years: coffee bars, beatniks, baggy sweaters, leather sandals, the solemnised union of jazz and poetry, a world whose high priests included the three ‘M’s: Miles and Monkand Mingus.
THE PARTITION: IRELAND DIVIDED, 1885–1925 BY CHARLES In The Partition, Charles Townshend explores the origins of the formal division of this long-divided island. As he points out, before there was a border, Protestants and Catholics clashed over the territory through which it would later run. During the 19th century, local traditions of communal violence in the north. NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE BY ANDREW MILLER Andrew Miller is a paradoxical novelist. He writes eloquently about isolation in a way that feels modern and relevant, and yet, more often than not, he dips into the past in order to do so. He does it again in his eighth novel, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Set in 1809, the story begins with the return to Somerset of Captain John Lacroix, an CIVILISATIONS BY LAURENT BINET (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY The echo of the game in the title of Laurent Binet’s new novel is no coincidence. His well-groomed face may not betray too obviously the traces of a nerdy twelve-year-old, but Civilisations is Civilization fan fiction on a heroic scale: a thoroughly thought-through, at timesexhausting novel of
SUMMER BY ALI SMITH
Summer is not quite that. This is a novel with, it is fair to say, a point of view. The story this time focuses on the Greenlaw family in Brighton: mother Grace, sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha, thirteen-year-old son Robert. Their father, Jeff, doesn’t feature directly in the story but lives next door with his new partner. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFFREY HILL An Interview with Geoffrey Hill. Geoffrey Hill is, in the opinion of many, the best poet now writing in England, though he is not the best known. He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932, the only child of a police constable. After reading English at Keble College, Oxford, he was for many years a lecturer at Leeds University, becoming SUBSCRIBE | LITERARY REVIEW Subscribe to Literary Review today and enjoy: Eleven illustrated issues per year, delivered to your letterbox. Bumper double issue for December and January. Unlimited access to the website online archive, extending back to 1979. Unlimited access to the Literary ReviewMY SUBSCRIPTION
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In the Current Issue: On the first occasion I met Martin Amis I was impelled to thrust a single upturned finger in his direction. He was out, leg before, victim of a googly delivered by a coke-crazed Australian clad in luminescent jeans. It was a dubious decision, and the author of Money gave me a disdainful leer. More recently, I went to visit him in the flat off Notting Hill where he goes to DAY OF THE ASSASSINS: A HISTORY OF POLITICAL MURDER BY In times like these we have to rue that Britain has only a paltry tradition of political assassination. This, I’d propose, is not a mark of civilisation but of timidity and the eschewal of realpolitik. DANCING ON ROPES: TRANSLATORS AND THE BALANCE OF HISTORY Should interpreters have agency? Should they let their choice of words influence the course of events? Thus muses veteran translator Anna Aslanyan at the start of her engaging new book Dancing on Ropes.It’s a question many interpreters must ask themselves as 18TH CENTURY & WRITING Book Reviews by subject: 18th Century & Writing June 2021 Issue Freya Johnston A Writer’s Revenge The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller inGrub Street
21ST CENTURY & WOMEN IN HISTORY Book Reviews by subject: 21st Century & Women in history June 2021 Issue Frances Cairncross They Fought to Report Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line 19TH CENTURY & ARCTIC Book Reviews by subject: 19th Century & Arctic June 2021 Issue Dan Richards On the Rocks Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic NightDAVID ANNAND
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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 London. November 2020, Issue 491 Alberto Manguel's miracle in Lisbon * David Gelber on Garibaldi in South America * Dmitri Levitin on polymaths * Cressida Connolly on Sybille Bedford * David Blow on America & Iran * Farzana Shaikh on Pakistan * Robert Mayhew on the Enlightenment * Michael White on Boris Johnson * Michael Tanner on Wagner * Paul Broks on autism * Kathryn Hughes on cats * Anthony Cummins on the Goncourts * John Maier on Jonathan Coe * Hannah Rosefield on Diane Cook * Stephen Romer on Jules Renard * Kate Wiles on the Light Ages * D J Taylor on John Cooper Clarke and much, much more…KATHRYN HUGHES
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One day in 1757 the poet Christopher Smart went out to St James’s Park, started praying loudly and couldn’t stop. He was hauled off to St Luke’s Asylum, where a cascade of ecstatic verse proceeded to pour from him, in which he identified his cat companion, Jeoffry, as ‘the servant of the Living God’. According to Smart’s delighted itemising, Jeoffry served the Almighty by catching rats, keeping his front paws pernickety clean and observing the watches of the night. He was a peaceable soul too, kissing neighbouring cats ‘in kindness’ and letting a mouse escape one time in seven. But perhaps Jeoffry’s greatest accomplishment was his ability to ‘spraggle upon waggle’. Both spraggling and waggling, Smart’s magnificat suggests, are deeply pleasing to the Lord. Although Jeoffry has become famous through Smart’s much-anthologised poem ‘My Cat Jeoffry’, he has left no other pawprint on the historical record. We don’t know how Smart found him, or how he found Smart. Nor is it certain... readmore
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THE POLYMATH: A CULTURAL HISTORY FROM LEONARDO DA VINCI TO SUSANSONTAG
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Academics like few things more than to complain about the state of their profession. A recurrent gripe is that their fields have descended into hyper-specialisation, with an overload of knowledge – books, articles and now various forms of digital material – leading to the death of the great generalists of yesteryear, who were able to leap bravely... read moreFARZANA SHAIKH
CAUGHT BETWEEN ALLAH & AMERICA It has long been a commonplace among observers of Pakistan to point to a toxic trio of forces beginning with the letter A – Allah, army and America – as the ultimate arbiters of the country’s destiny. While far-reaching social and economic changes may have rendered Pakistan’s future less predictable in recent years, the power of this triumvirate to dictate political outcomes is still not in question. This is strongly... read morePAUL BROKS
THE PATTERN SEEKERS: A NEW THEORY OF HUMAN INVENTION BY SIMON BARON-COHEN How did we get where we are, we human freaks of nature? Language, rational thought, art, science and technology set us apart from other species. Add to that list (more curse than accomplishment) an acute awareness of our own mortality. Other animals show faint glimmerings of innovation – crude tool use, for example – but no other specieshas... read more
CRESSIDA CONNOLLY
SYBILLE BEDFORD: AN APPETITE FOR LIFEBY SELINA HASTINGS
Within the pages of this biography, I discovered that Sybille Bedford had an affair with the sister of my father’s first wife and another with the stepfather of my mother’s stepsister. You are likely to find the same, for in matters of the heart Bedford did not stint. ‘I wish I’d written more books and spent less time... read moreDAN RICHARDS
THE MOTH AND THE MOUNTAIN: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, WAR, AND EVERESTBY ED CAESAR
The Moth and the Mountain is a strange book. Several times this past month I’ve told friends about it, describing its central figure, Maurice Wilson: war hero, heartbreaker, daydreamer, globetrotter, irrepressible adventurer, the man who, in 1932, dreamed up a scheme to fly the moth of ... read moreANTHONY CUMMINS
A BRUSH WITH THE GONCOURTS This month sees the announcement of the Prix Goncourt, the French literary prize awarded since 1903 to the book that meets its nicely roomy criteria of the year’s ‘best and most imaginative prose work’. Previously won by Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Houellebecq, it was conceived by the novelist Edmondde... read more
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