Literary Review

Archived since 19 October 1979
521 issues
Complete Archive Monthly
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
Peter Rose on Henry James * Piers Brendon on Russian spies * Lucy Moore on Josephine Baker * Seamus Perry on William Blake * Anthony Pagden on the Americas * John Guy on King James I * Christopher Turner on emigres * Francis Beckett on Tony Benn * Rupert Christiansen on Victor Hugo * Richard Vinen on General Pinochet * Edward Short on colonial New York * Robert Chandler on Anna Akhmatova * Nicola Shulman on Picasso's lovers * Laura Thompson on Agatha Christie * Nigel Andrew on birds * Peter York on Graydon Carter * Philip Womack on teen reading * Zoe Guttenplan on Sayaka Murata * Paul Genders on Anthony Passeron * Jude Cook on Xiaolu Guo * and much, much more 

Subjects: Culture, Literature

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  • First Issue: 19 October 1979
  • Latest Issue: April 2025
  • Issue Count: 521
  • Published: Monthly
  • ISSN: 2059-5352