From the January 1997 Issue Not For This Princess Seriously Funny: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime By Howard Jacobson LR
From the July 2008 Issue The Half-Open Window Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World By Timothy Brook LR
From the December 2012 Issue Tricks of the Eye Mr Collier’s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age By Dror Wahrman LR
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'Thirkell was a product of her time and her class. For her there are no sacred cows, barring those that win ribbons at the Barchester Agricultural.'
The novelist Angela Thirkell is due a revival, says Patricia T O'Conner (£).
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'Only in Britain, perhaps, could spy chiefs – conventionally viewed as masters of subterfuge – be so highly regarded as ethical guides.'
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-spy-who-taught-me
In this month's Bookends, @AdamCSDouglas looks at the curious life of Henry Labouchere: a friend of Bram Stoker, 'loose cannon', and architect of the law that outlawed homosexual activity in Britain.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-gross-indecency