December 2023 Issue Rowan Williams The Poet’s Burden On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe By Eva Hoffman
March 1995 Issue David Utterson Privacy Was an Obsession Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography By Gary Fountain and Peter Brazeau LR
May 1991 Issue Michael Thorn Pierce Me, Probe Me Learning not to be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti By Kathleen Jones
April 1998 Issue Nicholas Murray Rare Case of a Poet who Doubted His Own Genius A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold By Ian Hamilton LR
November 1993 Issue Sylvia Clayton Blake’s Progress Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law By E P Thompson LR
July 2016 Issue Seamus Perry What Lies Beneath Housman Country: Into the Heart of England By Peter Parker
June 1985 Issue Michael Hamburger Artistic Monomania Rilke: A Life By Wolfgang Leppmann (Translated by Russell M Stockman) LR
August 2006 Issue Robert Nye A Notable Disliker Of Milk and Martyrdom John Donne: The Reformed Soul By John Stubbs LR
October 2013 Issue Duncan Wu No Scribbling Rivalry William and Dorothy Wordsworth: ‘All in Each Other’ By Lucy Newlyn LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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