On the night of 5th July 1809, a group of soldiers kidnapped Pope Pius VII on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte. Munro Price looks at what happened next.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/bonaparte-meets-his-match

'She lived in a damp basement with her mother and sister, smoking roll-ups and talking to her parrot.'

Joanna Kavenna traces the life of the 'almost-forgotten poet' Charlotte Mew.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/she-hated-poetry-readings

'If, as James Wolcott once claimed, Roth was a miracle of modern medicine, he was also one of therapy’s notable failures.'

@leorobsonwriter on Philip Roth, that 'walking, wanking paradox'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-great-american-novelist