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 …

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 …

While Shakespeare seems to maintain the status of perennial contemporary, Milton does not enjoy quite the same standing. The knotty theological wrangling and offensively strict gender …

Internationally eminent as an art historian and critic, Anita Brookner is author of Watteau; The Genius of the Future; Greuze; and Jacques-Louis David.In 1968 she was the first woman ever …

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 …

Dec 1, 2024 · Adrian Tinniswood: Manors & Menorahs - Jewish Country Houses by Juliet Carey & Abigail Green (edd)

Theatre critics, like cowboys, seem to fascinate filmmakers. All About Eve (1950) is remembered almost as much for George Sanders’s portrayal of an aphoristic Broadway Machiavel, Addison …

It’s May 1964 in the German Democratic Republic. The communist regime has organised a meeting in East Berlin of German youth from both sides of the border. Half a million …

T ensions between the public and the private lie at the heart of Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors, a novel predominantly set in Penang in 1921 and immersed in the social mores of the …

This is an extraordinary book, depressing and enraging by turns. Jenni Fagan’s memoir of her troubled childhood was first bashed out twenty years ago in a white heat, as she desperately …