From the July 2019 Issue Playwright with a Cause? Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny By Clare Asquith LR
From the September 2015 Issue ‘The World Was All before Him’ The Poetry of John Milton By Gordon Teskey
From the June 2011 Issue What The Bailiff Saw Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan, 1592–1623 By Katherine Duncan-Jones LR
From the August 2013 Issue Shakespeare’s Primer The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed’s Chronicles By Paulina Kewes, Ian W Archer & Felicity Heal (edd) LR
From the September 2013 Issue Songs of Praise Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert By John Drury LR
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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?
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D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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