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Book Reviews by subject:
Anthologies

October 2023 Issue

Sara Lodge

Ladies in Lemon

Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives

By Jad Adams

February 2023 Issue

Richard Davenport-Hines

Compile, O Muse

The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture

By Clare Bucknell

December 2020 Issue

Joanna Kavenna

Writers on the Storm

Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology

By Alice Oswald & Paul Keegan (edd)

September 2020 Issue

Robert Chandler

Comrade, Shed No Tears

Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War

By Maria Bloshteyn (ed)

Vasili Tyorkin

By Alexander Tvardovsky (Translated from Russian by James Womack)

Wait for Me

By Konstantin Simonov (Translated from Russian by Mike Munford)

March 1993 Issue

Charles Shaar Murray

Carnival Spirit

American Ghosts & Old World Wonders

By Angela Carter

February 1990 Issue

Joan Smith

After The Bomb

Home Life Four

By Alice Thomas Ellis

February 1990 Issue

Michael De-La-Noy

When They Were Young

Seeds in the Wind: 20th Century Juvenilia from W B Yeats to Ted Hughes

By Neville Braybrooke (ed)

December 1989 Issue

Rachael Kerr

Who’ll Come a-Tiger Shooting with Me

From This Day Forward – An Anthology of Marriage

By Bel Mooney (Edited by)

February 1985 Issue

Craig Raine

Stylistic Prohibition

The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

By Roger Lonsdale

December 2018 Issue

Nicky Haslam

Conversations with Friends

No Longer with Us: Encounters with Naim Attallah

By Naim Attallah

April 2002 Issue

Robert Nye

We Could Do With A Few More, Monsieur

After Shakespeare: An Anthology

By John Gross ed.

December 1985 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Noo Yoik, Noo Yoik

Occasional Prose

By Mary McCarthy

New York: An Anthology

By Mike Marquesee & Bill Harris

January 1990 Issue

David Profumo

A Few of Their Favourite Things

The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings

By (Ed) Francis Spufford

Misalliance

By Edward Ableson

September 1992 Issue

Frank McLynn

Full of Lollipops

The Oxford Book of Villains

By John Mortimer (ed)

September 1980 Issue

Edwin Morgan

Poetry – the Place of the Will

Poetry Book Society: The First 25 Years 1954–1978

By Eric W White (ed)

July 1980 Issue

Chaim Raphael

The Jewish Experience

Jewish Perspectives: A Jewish Quarterly Anthology

By Jacob Sonntag (ed)

November 1983 Issue

David Profumo

Coming Out

The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse

By Stephen Coote (Ed)

Mae West is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction

By Adam Mars–Jones (Ed)

January 1982 Issue

James Campbell

Drinking and Rivalry and Sex

The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes

By Donald Hall (ed)

June 1983 Issue

Christopher Hill

Missed Opportunity

Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War

By Howard Erskine-Hill and Graham Storey (ed)

March 1990 Issue

Hilary Mantel

It Can be Happy

The Oxford Book of Marriage

By Helge Rubinstein