Literary Review
Archived since
19 October 1979
538 issues
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Founded in Edinburgh in 1979, Literary Review is Britain's best-loved literary monthly, providing sixty-four pages of witty, informative and authoritative reviews each month. It covers everything from history, biography and politics to literature, art and travel, and its contributors include some of the best writers and thinkers of the day.
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
Nicholas Dames on British novels * Jonathan Boff on Napoleon’s marshals * John Adamson on the Glorious Revolution * Diane Purkiss on small dogs * Erik Linstrum on confiscatory states * Ritchie Robertson on Thomas Mann * Peter Marshall on William Paget * Adam Sisman on Cold War spies * Josh Glancy on Roy Cohn * Ferdinand Mount on Anglo-German relations * Norma Clarke on Lavinia Fontana * Dmitri Levitin on collaborative authorship * Joseph Hone on bookselling * D J Taylor on John McGahern * Piers Brendon on America and the Middle East * Anthony Teasdale on Europe * Tim Richardson on William Morris * Fergus Butler-Gallie on wine * Ian Thomson on peasants * Joan Smith on pornography * Joanna Kavenna on doubles * Madeline Zehnder on little books * Maria Margaronis on Barbara Kingsolver * Paul Genders on Marlon James * and much, much more
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- First Issue: 19 October 1979
- Latest Issue: October 2026
- Issue Count: 538
- Published: Monthly
- ISSN: 2059-5352