For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Biography & Modernism

June 1999 Issue

Kathryn Hughes

Best Account We Have

George’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W B Yeats

By Brenda Maddox

September 2014 Issue

Matthew Sperling

Good, Bad & Ugly

Ezra Pound: Poet – A Portrait of the Man and His Work, Volume II, The Epic Years 1921–1939

By A David Moody

August 2014 Issue

Alex Danchev

Band of Bohemians

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910

By Sue Roe

October 2008 Issue

Frances Spalding

Artist of the Floating World

Chagall: Love and Exile

By Jackie Wullschlager

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

March 2005 Issue

John McEwen

The Open Window

Matisse the Master

By Hilary Spurling

April 2005 Issue

Peter Washington

Of Her Darker Purposes

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

By Julia Briggs

October 2012 Issue

Jay Parini

The Inheritance of Isabel Archer

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

By Michael Gorra

March 2014 Issue

Jeremy Noel-Tod

Modern Family

Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

By Linda Leavell

Kevin Jackson

We Need to Talk about Pablo

Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica

By T J Clark

October 2013 Issue

Matthew Sperling

Last of the Modernists

A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting

By Richard Burton