February 2023 Issue Antony Spawforth He Came, He Saw, He Looted Demetrius: Sacker of Cities By James Romm LR
July 2020 Issue Philip Parker The Barbarian at the Gate Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome By Douglas Boin
June 2019 Issue Tom Holland Eruptions of Knowledge In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny By Daisy Dunn
July 2018 Issue Peter Thonemann A Lover and a Fighter Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens By David Stuttard
May 2017 Issue Frank McLynn Did He Wash His Hands? Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory By Aldo Schiavone (Translated by Jeremy Carden)
November 2015 Issue Simon J V Malloch First among Equals Augustus: The Biography By Jochen Bleicken (Translated by Anthea Bell) LR
November 2015 Issue Anthony Kenny Prodigal Son Augustine: Conversions and Confessions By Robin Lane Fox LR
November 2015 Issue Kate Cooper All You Need Is Love St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle By Karen Armstrong LR
August 2015 Issue Paul Cartledge Whipping the Hellespont Xerxes: A Persian Life By Richard Stoneman LR
April 2015 Issue Edith Hall He, the People Pericles of Athens By Vincent Azoulay (Translated by Janet Lloyd) LR
March 2015 Issue Robin Lane Fox Prince of Persia Darius in the Shadow of Alexander By Pierre Briant (Translated by Jane Marie Todd) LR
August 2004 Issue Peter Jones The Life and Appetites of a Precocious Emperor Alexander the Great: The Hunt For A New Past By Paul Cartledge LR
March 2009 Issue Allan Massie Best Of A Bad Lot Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor By Frank McLynn LR
March 2008 Issue Peter Jones International Man of History Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend By Richard Stoneman LR
November 2007 Issue Peter Jones Julius Through The Ages Caesar: A Life in Western Culture By Maria Wyke LR
November 2012 Issue Allan Massie The Good, the Bad & the Ugly The Twelve Caesars By Matthew Dennison LR
June 2013 Issue Allan Massie The Queen & the Editor Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra By Peter Stothard 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
Priests have blessed armies and weapons, and sanctioned executions and massacres, but never so widely as in Putin’s Russia.
Donald Rayfield on the history of Russian Orthodoxy.
Donald Rayfield - Clerics & Crooks
Donald Rayfield: Clerics & Crooks - The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin by Lucy Ash
literaryreview.co.uk
Are children being burned out by endless exams? Or does rising inequality lie behind the mental health crisis in young people today?
@Samfr investigates.
Sam Freedman - The Kids Aren’t Alright
Sam Freedman: The Kids Aren’t Alright - Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation by Danny Dorling;...
literaryreview.co.uk
Augustus the Strong’s name has long been a byword for dissipation. Yet he was also a great patron of the arts, creating in Dresden perhaps the finest Baroque city in Europe.
Ritchie Robertson examines the two sides of his personality.
Ritchie Robertson - All for the Thrill of the Chase
Ritchie Robertson: All for the Thrill of the Chase - Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning
literaryreview.co.uk