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

Ben Hutchinson on Goethe in full * David Wheatley on T S Eliot's seventh volume of letters * Edith Hall on Greek and Roman myths and folk tales * Jonathan Steinberg on Jew Süss * Jane Ridley on Maud Russell's war diaries * Edward Dolnick on a forger's art * Oliver Balch on two wild swimming memoirs * Michael Hunter on Hans Sloane * Daisy Dunn on the Gauls * Michael Burleigh on Iran's Revolutionary Guards * Piers Brendon on Barack Obama * Michael Bloch on being gay in London * Sarah Ditum on self-obsession * John Lloyd on a career of reportage * Nakul Krishna on Arundhati Roy * James Purdon on Will Self * Jason Burke on book smuggling in Timbuktu * and much, much more...