From the November 2015 Issue
Guilty Parties
The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939–45
By Nicholas Stargardt
LR
From the August 2015 Issue
Heirs & Graces
Victoria: Queen, Matriarch, Empress
By Jane Ridley
William III & Mary II: Partners in Revolution
By Jonathan Keates
James II: The Last Catholic King
By David Womersley
LR
From the May 2015 Issue
Through Ice & Snow
Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble
By Antony Beevor
LR
From the March 2003 Issue
An Unlucky Man
Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon, 1897-1977
By D R Thorpe
LR
From the April 2003 Issue
The Return of Supermac
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950-1957
By Peter Catterall (ed)
LR
From the May 2003 Issue
Spare-Time Soviet
Prokofiev: From Russia To The West 1891-1935
By David Nice
LR
From the June 2003 Issue
Where’s Monty?
An Army at Dawn: The War In North Africa, 1942-1943
By Rick Atkinson
LR
From the July 2003 Issue
The Enemy Within
An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War
By Donald Thomas
LR
From the September 2003 Issue
Culture Clash
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War
By David Caute
LR
From the October 2003 Issue
A Decent Sort
Memoirs
By Douglas Hurd
Little, Brown 534pp £20
LR
From the November 2003 Issue
Patrolling The Globe
'A Problem From Hell': America and the Age of Genocide
By Samantha Power
LR
From the December 2003 Issue
Our Island Story
A People's History of Britain
By Rebecca Fraser
LR
From the February 2004 Issue
After The Firestorm
Dresden
By Fredrick Taylor
LR
From the March 2004 Issue
Warlords At Sea
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
By Robert K Massie
LR
From the April 2004 Issue
Music to Uncle Joe’s Ears
Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator
By Solomon Volkov
LR
From the May 2004 Issue
Oak of the Realm
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage
By Charles Mosley (ed)
LR
From the June 2004 Issue
Bloomsday Remembered
LR
From the July 2004 Issue
Wagner In Love
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde
By Roger Scruton
From the July 2004 Issue
The Turn of the Tide
Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein
By Nial Barr
LR
From the August 2004 Issue
This Tedious Priest
Know The Truth: A Memoir
By George Carey
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
‘I have to change’, Miles Davis once said. ‘It’s like a curse.’
@rwilliams1947 tells the story of how Davis made jazz cool.
Richard Williams - In Their Own Sweet Way
Richard Williams: In Their Own Sweet Way - 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lo...
literaryreview.co.uk
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson - review by Terry Eagleton via @Lit_Review
for the new(ish) April issue of @Lit_Review I commissioned a number of pieces, including Deborah Levy on Bowie, Rosa Lyster on creative non-fiction, @JonSavage1966 on Pulp, @mjohnharrison on Oyamada, @rwilliams1947 on Kind of Blue, @chris_power on HGarner