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Literary Review covers the most important and interesting books published each month, from history and biography to fiction and travel. The magazine was founded in 1979 and is based in central London. November 2024, Issue 535 Freya Johnston on Handel’s Messiah * Nicholas McDowell on John Milton * Fiona Sampson on Syliva Plath * D J Taylor on ...
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In the Current Issue: At the age of thirty-seven William Morris went off to Iceland to reassess his life (or lives) to date. From a sunny, well-heeled childhood – his father was a bill broker who died shortly and luckily before his business collapsed – Morris went to rough-tough Marlborough, where he learnt next to nothing because, he said ...
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About. Literary Review covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction.Each issue contains sixty-four pages of reviews from some of the leading authors, journalists, academics and thinkers in Britain in a variety of fields. It aims to reach a wide audience of readers who enjoy intelligent and accessible writing.
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Essays on Realism - Literary Review
Equipped with his doctrine of realism, Lukács then proceeds to wield it simultaneously on two opposed fronts. As a coruscating critique of ‘naturalism’, it becomes a heavily coded way of attacking the anaemic products of Soviet socialist realism. As a defence of the enduring verities of character, narration and ‘typicality’,
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The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Martyn Bedford
By Joyce Carol Oates. Fourth Estate 481pp £17.99. PEOPLE ARE DRAWN to the Niagara Falls for many reasons, but this awesome spectacle holds a peculiar magnetism for those at an emotional extreme (honeymooners and the suicidal are regular visitors). Ariah and Gilbert, the newlyweds in Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel, manage to fall into both ...
Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale - review by Alexander Larman
Tinder Press 406pp £20. The Cornish poet Charles Causley might be an underappreciated figure today, but his fictionalised representation in Patrick Gale’s new novel should do much to introduce his work to a new audience, assuming that Mother’s Boy enjoys the success of Gale’s previous books A Place Called Winter and Notes from an Exhibition.
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
By Peter Ackroyd. Sinclair-Stevenson 1212pp £19.95. ‘To see Dickens day by day,’ writes Peter Ackroyd, ‘making his way, the incidents of his existence shaping his fiction just as his fiction alters his life, the same pattern of emotion and imagery rising up from letters and novels and conversations, the same momentum and the same desire ...
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Elaine Showalter
This is truly the Balzacian novel towards which Oates has been striving throughout her career. Yet, despite the book’s length and daring, the work of condensation, stylisation and, to use her word, ‘distillation’ has clearly been needed in setting this vast, messy story in an aesthetic context. In an author’s note, Oates explains that ...