From the November 2024 Issue Architects Behaving Badly A Short History of British Architecture, from Stonehenge to the Shard By Simon Jenkins LR
From the July 2024 Issue Puss Gets the Boot Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B Calhoun By Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden LR
From the December 2023 Issue Make Architecture Great Again! Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World By Thomas Heatherwick
From the August 2023 Issue Where the Wheeled Things Are Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World By Henry Grabar LR
From the May 2023 Issue Cushions & Class Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain By Ben Highmore
From the April 2023 Issue Design Flaws Architect, Verb: The New Language of Building By Reinier de Graaf LR
From the December 2022 Issue More Than Meets the Eye Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing By Riccardo Falcinelli (Translated from Italian by Simon Carnell & Erica Segre) LR
From the October 2022 Issue All That Glitters Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones By Hettie Judah LR
From the May 2022 Issue Build ’em Up, Knock ’em Down Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy By Charlotte Van den Broeck (Translated from Dutch by David McKay) LR
From the December 2021 Issue Ode to an Ashtray Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects By Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner & Miranda Critchley (edd) LR
From the April 2021 Issue Trespassers Will Be Contaminated Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape By Cal Flyn
From the July 2020 Issue Deceptively Bright, in an Up & Coming Area Bunker: Building for the End Times By Bradley Garrett
From the March 2020 Issue Hanging with the Hunky Punks The Stonemason: A History of Building Britain By Andrew Ziminski
From the February 2019 Issue Strolling in the Deep Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet By Will Hunt LR
From the June 2018 Issue Just So Stories Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World By Simon Winchester LR
From the July 2016 Issue Glass House & Fallingwater Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson By Hugh Howard LR
From the December 2015 Issue Look on My Works, Ye Mighty Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers By James Crawford 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
Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize.
In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.
Rosa Lyster - Kiss of Death
Rosa Lyster: Kiss of Death - Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
literaryreview.co.uk
‘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