For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Literary biography & Literary life

November 2007 Issue

Brenda Maddox

On the Stein Trail

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

By Janet Malcolm

November 2007 Issue

John Gray

The Dorset Proust

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdóttir

Porius

By John Cowper Powys

October 2007 Issue

Piers Paul Read

Yours, Faithfully

Graham Greene: A Life in Letters

By Richard Greene (ed)

October 2007 Issue

Peter McDonald

Red-Headed Rebel

Ezra Pound: Poet I – The Young Genius, 1885–1920

By A David Moody

August 2007 Issue

Peter Washington

Out of the Fog

Joseph Conrad: A Life

By Zdzislaw Najder

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad

By John Stape

August 2006 Issue

Francis King

A Marmoreal Mind

A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan

By Jeremy Reed

June 2005 Issue

Alexander Waugh

An Unrepentant Englishman: The Life of S P B Mais, Ambassador of the Countryside

An Unrepentant Englishman: The Life of S P B Mais, Ambassador of the Countryside

By Maisie Robson

April 2012 Issue

Andrew Hussey

Oulipotastic

Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature

By Daniel Levin Becker

July 2012 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

In Pursuit of His Talent

Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals 1939–1995

By Lara Feigel & John Sutherland (ed)

February 2005 Issue

Henrietta Garnett

Arbitrators of the Mind

The Strachey Family

By Barbara Caine

March 2005 Issue

Peter Washington

Serious About Sex

D H Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider

By John Worthen

April 2005 Issue

Peter Washington

Of Her Darker Purposes

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

By Julia Briggs

September 2012 Issue

Sam Leith

Bandanna on the Run

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

By D T Max

February 2013 Issue

Robert Gordon

The Poet-King of Fiume

The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio – Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett