Contributors
more- Michael Collins (1)
- Josh Abbey
- Cosmo Adair
- John Adamson
- Hassan Akram
- Nigel Andrew
- Bryan Appleyard
- Anne Billson
- Piers Brendon
- Tilda Coleman
- Natasha Cooper
- Mark Cornwall
- Stevie Davies
- Adam Douglas
- Thom Eagle
- Tom Fort
- Paul Genders
- Edmund Gordon
- Susan-Mary Grant
- Zoe Guttenplan
- Robert Hazell
- Constance Higgins
- Thomas W Hodgkinson
- Wendy Holden
- Joseph Hone
- Elizabeth Howcroft
- Mark Lawson
- Alexander Lee
- Victoria Mangan
- Patrick Marnham
- Caroline Moorehead
- Sarah Moorhouse
- Lucy Popescu
- Anna Reid
- Ritchie Robertson
- Nicola Shulman
- Emma Smith
- Stephen Smith
- D J Taylor
- Michael Taylor
- Adrian Tinniswood
- Jon Turney
- Richard Vinen
- Christopher Webb
- Will Wiles
- Philip Womack
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
Twitter Feed
Margaret Atwood has become a cultural weathervane, blamed for predicting dystopia and celebrated for resisting it. Yet her ‘memoir of sorts’ reveals a more complicated, playful figure.
@sophieolive introduces us to a young Peggy.
Sophie Oliver - Ms Fixit’s Characteristics
Sophie Oliver: Ms Fixit’s Characteristics - Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
literaryreview.co.uk
For a writer so ubiquitous, George Orwell remains curiously elusive. His voice is lost, his image scarce; all that survives is the prose, and the interpretations built upon it.
@Dorianlynskey wonders what is to be done.
Dorian Lynskey - Doublethink & Doubt
Dorian Lynskey: Doublethink & Doubt - Orwell: 2+2=5 by Raoul Peck (dir); George Orwell: Life and Legacy by Robert Colls
literaryreview.co.uk
The court of Henry VIII is easy to envision thanks to Hans Holbein the Younger’s portraits: the bearded king, Anne of Cleves in red and gold, Thomas Cromwell demure in black.
Peter Marshall paints a picture of the artist himself.
Peter Marshall - Varnish & Virtue
Peter Marshall: Varnish & Virtue - Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring
literaryreview.co.uk