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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, 'next to nothing was taught', and on to Exeter ...
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - review by Hilary Mantel
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Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
‘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 for control – to see Dickens thus is to turn biography into an agent of true knowledge…’
The Long Knives by Irvine Welsh - review by Jude Cook - Literary …
A critical consensus has built up over the years that there is Good Irvine Welsh and there is Bad Irvine Welsh. Good Irvine encompasses such generation-defining works as Trainspotting, The Acid House and Filth, while Bad Irvine covers such sloppy, repetitive, self-parodic novels as A Decent Ride and the many sequels and prequels to Trainspotting.His 2008 novel Crime, which follows the exploits ...
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November 2024 Issue Fiona Sampson Changed in a Minute The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath By Peter K Steinberg (ed) November 2024 Issue Nicholas McDowell
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Shop Literary Review Merchandise. Literary Review 500th Issue Postcards | £3.99 A beautiful set of six postcards featuring reproductions of Chris Riddell’s portraits of recognisable literary figures, taken from recent covers of Literary Review.The authors include Frederick Douglass, T S Eliot, Philip Larkin, Sigmund Freud, Mary Wollstonecraft and Franz Kafka.