From the December 2009 Issue In Two Minds The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World By Iain McGilchrist LR
From the July 2008 Issue Touching the Third Rail Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate By Kenan Malik LR
From the March 2007 Issue Crossroads in Cairo The Yacoubian Building By Alaa Al Aswany (Translated by Humphrey Davies) LR
From the April 2007 Issue Passion & Possibility Shakespeare the Thinker By A D Nuttall Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography By René Weis LR
From the September 2006 Issue I, Anti-Realist The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe By Michael Frayn LR
From the July 2006 Issue Lectures on Liberty Isaiah Berlin: Political Ideas in the Romantic Age By Henry Hardy (ed), with an introduction by Joshua Cherniss LR
From the May 2006 Issue Great Minds Don’t Think Alike Rousseau's Dog By David Edmonds and John Eidinow The Courtier and the Heretic By Matthew Stewart LR
From the December 2005 Issue A C Grayling welcomes a new series on Myths The Penelopiad By Margaret Atwood and Jeanette Winterson LR
From the November 2005 Issue The Ambassador of Utopia Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom By Roger Pearson LR
From the March 2005 Issue Mapping the Mind The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind By Steven Rose LR
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
The era of dollar dominance might be coming to an end. But if not the dollar, which currency will be the backbone of the global economic system?
@HowardJDavies weighs up the alternatives.
Howard Davies - Greenbacks Down, First Editions Up
Howard Davies: Greenbacks Down, First Editions Up - Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent...
literaryreview.co.uk
Johannes Gutenberg cut corners at every turn when putting together his bible. How, then, did his creation achieve such renown?
@JosephHone_ investigates.
Joseph Hone - Start the Presses!
Joseph Hone: Start the Presses! - Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books by Eric Marshall White
literaryreview.co.uk
Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that her celebrity would outlive her.
@sophieolive examines the real Stein.
Sophie Oliver - The Once & Future Genius
Sophie Oliver: The Once & Future Genius - Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
literaryreview.co.uk