From the November 2002 Issue The Book We Have Been Crying Out for A Mind of its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis By David M Friedman LR
From the December 2015 Issue Caught in the Spotlight Playing Scared: My Journey Through Stage Fright By Sara Solovitch LR
From the April 2003 Issue An Unusually Gifted Composer Beethoven: The Music and the Life By Lewis Lockwood LR
From the July 2003 Issue The Chippy Composer Britten on Music By Paul Kildea (ed) David Matthews By Haus Publishing 192pp £12.99 LR
From the August 2003 Issue Music And Madness Piano Notes: The Hidden World of the Pianist By Charles Rosen LR
From the November 2003 Issue The Man Behind the Miracles The Authentic Gospel of Jesus By Geza Vermes LR
From the November 2004 Issue The Adventures of Lady Satin Tights The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family By Christopher Simon Sykes LR
From the December 2004 Issue How Weird was Wallis? Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor By Charles Higham LR
From the October 2014 Issue Ménage à Quatre The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me By Sofka Zinovieff LR
From the September 2011 Issue Spheres of Influence A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos By Dava Sobel LR
From the May 2011 Issue Rites of Passage The Children of Lovers: A Memoir of William Golding by His Daughter By Judy Golding 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
‘At times, Orbital feels almost like a long poem.’
@sam3reynolds on Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, the winner of this year’s @TheBookerPrizes
Sam Reynolds - Islands in the Sky
Sam Reynolds: Islands in the Sky - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
literaryreview.co.uk
Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
D D Guttenplan - Smiley Redux
D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
literaryreview.co.uk
In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
David Abulafia - Legends of the Phantom Rider
David Abulafia: Legends of the Phantom Rider - El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by Nora Berend
literaryreview.co.uk