Contributors
more- Neil Armstrong
- Oliver Balch
- Shahidha Bari
- Stephen Bates
- David Bodanis
- Charlotte Bolland
- William Brodrick
- Christopher Coker
- Ian Critchley
- Suzi Feay
- Christopher Fletcher
- Clare Griffiths
- Angus Hawkins
- Simon Heffer
- Robert Irwin
- Kevin Jackson
- John Man
- Jessica Mann
- Jurek Martin
- Daniel Matlin
- Frank McLynn
- Jonathan Meades
- Ramita Navai
- Pamela Norris
- Richard Norton-Taylor
- Susan Owens
- Jason Pearl
- Lucy Popescu
- Richard V Reeves
- Glenn Richardson
- Lucian Robinson
- Declan Ryan
- Julianne Schultz
- Elisa Segrave
- Miranda Seymour
- D J Taylor
- Peter Thonemann
- Adrian Tinniswood
- Richard Vinen
- Catriona Ward
- Adrian Nathan West
- Martin Vander Weyer
- David Wheatley
- Sara Wheeler
- Philip Womack
- Imogen Woodberry
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
From the archive: Kenneth Rose on the life of Princess Alice of Battenberg
https://literaryreview.co.uk/she-trumped-them-all
'The trick of a successful mercenary ... was somehow to get on almost as well with your enemies as your allies, since those two positions could be reversed at dizzying speed.'
Sarah Dunant on the life of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/scholar-in-arms
'McDormand has come closer to Lady Macbeth in some of her previous grimly comic performances ... Here she can convey only the banality of evil, as when she fussily curtails the banquet after Macbeth’s hallucination.'
https://literaryreview.co.uk/come-thick-night