Literary Review
Archived since
19 October 1979
530 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
Norma Clarke on Charlie Chaplin’s London * Richard Bourke on revolution * Lucasta Miller on George Sand * Peter Davidson on Constable * Philippe Marlière on far-right France * Munro Price on the Marquis de Morès * Piers Brendon on Trotsky’s demise * Mark Glancy on Hitchcock’s scores * Felicity Brown on romantic fiction * Simon Nixon on money laundering * Will Wiles on pinball * Joe Moran on the Footlights * Andrew Preston on Robert McNamara * Philip Snow on Chinese communism * Fitzroy Morrissey on the last Ottoman caliph * Hermione Eyre on Jessica Mitford * Michael Burleigh on MAGA * Freya Johnston on Daniel Defoe * Alexander Lee on Henry Wotton * Kapil Komireddi on Buddhist extremism * Miranda Seymour on Russian forests * Zoe Guttenplan on George Saunders * Ben Hutchinson on Gabriele Tergit * Peter Kemp on Julian Barnes * Joseph Williams on Madeline Cash * and much, much more
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- First Issue: 19 October 1979
- Latest Issue: February 2026
- Issue Count: 530
- Published: Monthly
- ISSN: 2059-5352