Literary Review
Archived since
19 October 1979
537 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."
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Kathryn Hughes on Anita Brookner * Richard Vinen on Eric Hobsbawm * Andrew Preston on Francis Fukuyama * Howard Davies on government debt * Wendy Holden on Barbara Cartland * Tim Bale on Rishi Sunak * Philip Womack on J R R Tolkien * Malise Ruthven on Middle Eastern history * Philip Parker on the Vikings * Piers Brendon on 1960s Britain * Adrian Tinniswood on Thomas Cochrane * Jonathan Keates on the Contessa di Castiglione * Caroline Moorehead on Nazi Vienna * John Gribbin on Stephen Hawking * Martin Vander Weyer on Leon Black * Anthony Gottlieb on James Marriott * William Whyte on M R James * Emma Smith on Marie Maitland * Jane O’Grady on postwar philosophy * Nigel Andrew on churches * Kate McLoughlin on translating Old English * Matthew Sperling on MI6 recruitment * Constance Higgins on Elizabeth Strout * Olivia Ho on China Miéville * and much, much more
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- First Issue: 19 October 1979
- Latest Issue: September 2026
- Issue Count: 537
- Published: Monthly
- ISSN: 2059-5352