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Another great cover by @chrisriddell50 announces the latest @Lit_Review incl my piece on a gripping account of a true crime story by James Lasdun
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The October issue of @Lit_Review is bursting with good stuff. There's @n_j_dames on the British novel, @ErikLinstrum on the history of confiscation, @FlorenceHallett on sculpture, @josephcoward on Ben Eastham and so much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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My review of Nicholas Mulder's Age of Confiscation is out in the October issue of @Lit_Review with some thoughts on very big history literaryreview.co.uk/states-…
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Spent my holiday this summer rereading @EmilyMandel and had a great time doing it. I wrote about her latest for @Lit_Review
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I'm on the cover of the @Lit_Review in a drawing by the great @chrisriddell50 ! Excellent review by Nicholas Dames. literaryreview.co.uk/all-the…
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"Biological War: A Scenario" by Annie Jacobsen - review by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (fmr commander of British CBRN defense forces)
Apocalypse Now
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Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister? by Anthony Seldon & Tom Egerton - great review by @ProfTimBale
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Dazzling issue – Kathryn Hughes' review of the new Anita Brookner bio is a superb piece of criticism.
Also, elbowing his way to the front of the pages, is my Lord Thomas Cochrane. 'A Dangerous Game must surely be the last word on a man who was once a national hero.' Out today!
Out now! Literary Review's September 2026 issue, featuring
Kathryn Hughes on Anita Brookner
Richard Vinen on Eric Hobsbawm
@wendholden on Barbara Cartland
Howard Davies on government debt
Andrew Preston on Francis Fukuyama
and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World by Robin Wigglesworth - review by Howard Davies literaryreview.co.uk/betas-i… via @Lit_Review
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Delighted to have review this life of M R James literaryreview.co.uk/no-thin… via @Lit_Review
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Whisp, White Meteor by Ian Duhig, paywalled but you get the idea. A meteor until well into the 19thC meant any atmospherical disturbance, hence 'meteorology'. literaryreview.co.uk/whisp-w… via @Lit_Review
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I’ve got a piece about the new Sebastian Barry #firstnamelastname in the soaraway back-to-school September issue of @Lit_Review - enjoyed it a great deal more than I feared I might literaryreview.co.uk/cry-fre…
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The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society by James Marriott - review by Anthony Gottlieb literaryreview.co.uk/zombie-… via @Lit_Review
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Grateful to @lit_review for this generous assessment of our book literaryreview.co.uk/despair…
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The excellent new issue of Literary Review contains my review of Christopher Nolan's #Odyssey. I liked it more than Emily Wilson did (but is it possible to like it any less?)
Out now! Literary Review's August 2026 issue, featuring
Emma Smith on New World imports
Ian Thomson on Mario Vargas Llosa
Seamus Perry on Sylvia Plath
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on biological warfare
Simon Garfield on pens
and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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The August issue of @Lit_Review is a cabinet of curiosities containing @djbduncan on raunchy pirates, @harrstetler on the French far Right, Emma Smith on New World imports, @wellflem on Donal Ryan, Seamus Perry on Sylvia Plath and so much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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The world's best magazine's new issue is out now
Out now! Literary Review's August 2026 issue, featuring
Emma Smith on New World imports
Ian Thomson on Mario Vargas Llosa
Seamus Perry on Sylvia Plath
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on biological warfare
Simon Garfield on pens
and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
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My review of Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Life of M, is now online. It’s in print, too, in the August issue of @Lit_Review
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It was my pleasure to write an essay on the life and work of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japan’s ‘father’ of the short story, for the August issue of @Lit_Review, with reference to Akira Kurosawa, David Peace, Haruki Murakami, Taishō democracy, a n d m o r e… literaryreview.co.uk/20272-2
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Bowled over by Jonathan Boff's review of COLLAPSE in this month's @Lit_Review! ‘Original and thought-provoking … Collapse represents an ambitious and scholarly achievement ... it sets a new standard for writing the history of warfare’.
A v good day!
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