July 2008 Issue Donald Rayfield Forgotten By Ford The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags – Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia By Tim Tzouliadis LR
June 2008 Issue Donald Rayfield From Russia with Love Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and Betrayal By Owen Matthews LR
March 2008 Issue Donald Rayfield Other Stories Children’s World: Growing up in Russia, 1890–1991 By Catriona Kelly LR
October 2007 Issue Donald Rayfield The Russian Dispossessed The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia By Orlando Figes The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s By Hiroaki Kuromiya LR
September 2007 Issue Richard Overy Twentieth Century Monsters Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe By Robert Gellately LR
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is practically a byword for old-fashioned Victorian grandeur, rarely pictured without a cravat and a serious beard.
Seamus Perry tries to picture him as a younger man.
Seamus Perry - Before the Beard
Seamus Perry: Before the Beard - The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
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Novelist Muriel Spark had a tongue that could produce both sugar and poison. It’s no surprise, then, that her letters make for a brilliant read.
@claire_harman considers some of the most entertaining.
Claire Harman - Fighting Words
Claire Harman: Fighting Words - The Letters of Muriel Spark, Volume 1: 1944-1963 by Dan Gunn
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Of all the articles I’ve published in recent years, this is *by far* my favourite.
✍️ On childhood, memory, and the sea - for @Lit_Review :
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