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In the Current Issue: Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women ...
Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway - review by D D Guttenplan
D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway. In May 1966, an aggrieved John le Carré wrote to the editor of the Soviet newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta in response to a critical review.Noting that his books were at that point unavailable in the Soviet Union, he set out his stall for the benefit of (sadly imaginary) Russian …
Issue 535 | Literary Review
Dec 1, 2024 · 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 * 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 * Altair ...
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In the Current Issue: About halfway through this novel, an astronaut called Pietro reflects that ‘if you could get far enough away from the earth you’d be able finally to understand it’. This is a neat summation of one of the themes of Samantha Harvey’s slim fifth novel, which has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. Stand as far back as you can imagine and say what you see.
The Invention of British Art by Bendor Grosvenor - review by …
You would think that there were dozens of histories of British art out there, along the lines of an art history course I came across titled ‘Caveman to Picasso’. Oddly, there are not, and those that exist cannot always be trusted. This most enjoyable book is an exception. The great period of ...
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Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson - review by Nicholas …
It’s said that Oxford was spared destruction on the scale of Coventry because Adolf Hitler wanted the place as his capital after he conquered England. Ashley Jackson’s engrossing new book describes how the city of dreaming spires woke up to the …
The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe - review by Jeremy …
Jonathan Coe’s latest book turns out to be a bag of tricks, but it starts sedately enough. Phyl, a recent English graduate, is back living with her parents, Joanna and Andrew, making puns about ‘parochial’ vicars and contemplating writing a cosy crime novel (‘It would be like writing a student essay: all you had to do was to make sure that you … followed the agreed formula’).
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Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women * Charles Shaar Murray on ...