Literary Review

Archived since 19 October 1979
517 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
Freya Johnston on Handel’s Messiah * Nicholas McDowell on John Milton * Fiona Sampson on Syliva Plath * D J Taylor on Tom Sharpe * Richard Vinen on Boris Johnson * Pratinav Anil on the ruling class * Annika Mombauer on the First World War * Bijan Omrani on women in the ancient world * Nicholas Rankin on Oxford at war * Howard Davies on Germany’s economic miracle * Alex de Waal on Ethiopia * David Abulafia on El Cid * William Whyte on Josephine Butler * Altair Brandon-Salmon on Mies van der Rohe * Ian Fraser on Credit Suisse * Adam Douglas on illustrated novels * Frances Cairncross on the care crisis * Zoe Guttenplan on Ali Smith * Stevie Davies on Andrew Miller * D D Guttenplan on Nick Harkaway * Jeremy Wikeley on Jonathan Coe * Sam Reynolds on Samantha Harvey * Paul Genders on Anne Michaels * Eleanor Baker on book curses * and much, much more

Subjects: Culture, Literature

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  • First Issue: 19 October 1979
  • Latest Issue: November 2024
  • Issue Count: 517
  • Published: Monthly
  • ISSN: 2059-5352