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WEBLiterary 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. September 2024, Issue 533 Claire Harman on female detectives * Georgina Adam on art market scandal * John Keay on the Indosphere * Philip Womack ...
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - review by Hilary Mantel
WEBSep 1, 1996 · By Margaret Atwood. Bloomsbury 480pp £15.99. In Margaret Atwood’s brilliant new novel of nineteenth-century Canada there is a character called Jeremiah, a pedlar, whose diverse and enticing wares are welcomed in almost any house. Some of his linens and ribbons are new, and some are what is now known as ‘previously owned’, but …
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Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino - review by Christopher …
WEBThey are a serious art form but shouldn’t be taken too seriously. For Tarantino, the two worst decades in 20th-century film were the 1950s and the 1980s, the former because the United States was uptight and conformist as a result of the Cold War, the latter because of self-censorship, artistic pusillanimity and tedious moralising.
Issue 509 - Literary Review
WEBAlex von Tunzelmann on Gone with the Wind * Rana Mitter on the First Indochina War * Tanya Harrod on Jane and William Morris * Edward Weech on Charles Lamb * Piers Brendon on Henry Kissinger * Mark Galeotti on Putin * Charles Clarke on the Labour party * Diane Purkiss on dragons * Christopher Silvester on Buster Keaton * Philip Thomas on …
Caroline’s Bikini by Kirsty Gunn - review by Joanna Kavenna
WEBFor contemporary authors, the dilemma is further compounded by the much-vaunted ‘death of the novel’, as well as ‘the death of books of any sort’ and ‘the death of words in general’. In Caroline’s Bikini, the New Zealand-born Kirsty Gunn, whose previous works include The Boy and the Sea (2007 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year ...
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - review by Julian Barnes
WEBBy Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber 245pp £11.99. Kazuo Ishiguro has been widely praised for his ‘Japanese’ virtues as a writer: delicacy, subtlety, quiet irony, watercolour tones, etc. The fact that he was born in Japan and set his first two novels there makes such ethno-critical diagnosis easier. On the other hand, the listed qualities could just ...
Levi Roach - Who’ll Take the Helm? - Literary Review
WEBSep 1, 2020 · The sinking of the White Ship on the evening of 25 November 1120 was one of the most decisive turning points in English history. Aboard the vessel was the cream of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, including King Henry I’s …
Middle England by Jonathan Coe - review by Mark Lawson
WEBIn an author’s note at the end of Middle England, Coe admits that he had no previous intention of creating a Rotters’ trilogy, but, keen to fictionalise the strange days of the UK’s attempt to leave the EU, came to see the logic of reusing established characters. Certainly, there’s an attractive neatness in the third book completing a ...