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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Close to Home by Michael Magee - review by Dylan Kaposi
Throughout Michael Magee’s lucid and stirring debut novel, Close to Home, the narrator, Sean, grapples with the repercussions of his assault on a teenager at a party.After completing his …
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<i>Literary Review</i> 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 …
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh - review by John Thieme
All of Amitav Ghosh’s writing to date has traced connections across cultures. Sea of Poppies, the first part of what promises to be the great trilogy of Empire as seen from the vantage point of …
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Elaine Showalter
A few years ago, I was talking to Joyce Carol Oates, who teaches Creative Writing at Princeton University, about a poem she had written describing a deer in her garden.