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Literary Review

Archived since 19 October 1979
528 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
Jeremy Noel-Tod on Seamus Heaney * Kathryn Murphy on Vermeer * Kirsten Tambling on two 18th-century artists * Sophie Oliver on Katherine Mansfield * Lucy Lethbridge on reading * Tom Shippey on the first king of England * Daniel Rey on Christopher Columbus * Nigel Jones on U-boats * Richard Vinen on the Second World War * John Phipps on John le Carré * Julian Baggini on effective altruism * William Whyte on Hertford College, Oxford * Patrick Galbraith on Rory Stewart * John Gribbin on Francis Crick * Maren Meinhardt on Sarah Perry * James Cahill on Sally Mann * D J Taylor on John Fowles * Simon Heffer on classical music * Richard Dyer on film scores *  Miranda Seymour on wolves * Felicity Cloake on pizza * Mark Lawson on John Irving * Pratinav Anil on Salman Rushdie * Claudia FitzHerbert on Philip Pullman *  and much, much more…
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  • First Issue: 19 October 1979
  • Latest Issue: November 2025
  • Issue Count: 528
  • Published: Monthly
  • ISSN: 2059-5352