From the May 2022 Issue Hello, Boys The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham By Paul R Deslandes LR
From the February 2020 Issue Artists for Hire Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company By William Dalrymple (ed)
From the May 2019 Issue Obscene Parliamentary Acts Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love By Naomi Wolf
From the December 2017 Issue Imperial Designs Picturing India: People, Places and the World of the East India Company By John McAleer 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 Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.
Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery
Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
literaryreview.co.uk
For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
Fiona Sampson - Changed in a Minute
Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
literaryreview.co.uk
The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
On porky rolodexes and the persistence of elite reproduction, for the @Lit_Review: