February 2022 Issue Steve Richards Brawls & Brexit One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage By Michael Crick
September 2020 Issue Daniel Todman The Importance of Being Ernie Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill By Andrew Adonis LR
July 2020 Issue Abhimanyu Arni From Bombay to the Green Benches Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism By Dinyar Patel LR
April 2019 Issue Jane Ridley Prime Minister’s Pet Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman By Charles Williams LR
November 2015 Issue Piers Brendon Her Militant Tendency Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two – Everything She Wants By Charles Moore
November 2003 Issue Michael Burleigh What Thatcher Did for US Margaret Thatcher: Volume Two - The Iron Lady By John Campbell LR
October 2004 Issue Catherine Peters The Pragmatic Populist Disraeli: A Personal History By Christopher Hibbert LR
November 2004 Issue Richard Overy How I Won In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing The Second World War By David Reynolds LR
November 2004 Issue Nigel Jones The Most Precocious Premier William Pitt The Younger By William Hague LR
August 2008 Issue Lucy Wooding For Queen and Country Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I By Stephen Alford LR
May 2008 Issue Paul Johnson Battler for Britain Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius By Richard Holmes LR
June 2008 Issue Richard Toye A Liberal Lover The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life By Ffion Hague LR
February 2008 Issue Simon Heffer The Poet Pamphleteer Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham By Blair Worden Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot By Anna Beer LR
December 2007 Issue Max Egremont The Man and the Myth The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig By Gary Mead LR
November 2007 Issue Leslie Mitchell A Gentleman In Politics Balfour: The Last Grandee By R J Q Adams LR
September 2007 Issue Leslie Mitchell Derby’s Days The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (Volume I: Ascent, 1799–1851) By Angus Hawkins LR
April 2012 Issue Edward Norman King Takes Bishop Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim – A 900-Year-Old Story Retold By John Guy LR
July 2012 Issue Paul Addison Prime Scribbler Mr Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer By Peter Clarke 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
Interview with Iris Murdoch by John Haffenden via @Lit_Review
I love Helen Garner and this, by @chris_power in @Lit_Review, is excellent.
Yesterday was Fredric Jameson's 90th birthday.
This month's Archive newsletter includes Terry Eagleton on The Political Unconscious, and other pieces from our April 1983 issue.
Terry Eagleton - Supermarket of the Mind
Terry Eagleton: Supermarket of the Mind - The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson
literaryreview.co.uk