December 2019 Issue Lucy Lethbridge A Postcode of One’s Own Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars By Francesca Wade LR
April 2019 Issue Clare Bucknell Thinkers & Drinkers The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age By Leo Damrosch
September 2003 Issue Adam Sisman Lamb Stew A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb By Sarah Burton LR
August 2008 Issue Peter Washington Literary Legacies The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty By Humphrey Carpenter LR
June 2008 Issue Frances Wilson Words of Love Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910–1939 By Katie Roiphe LR
November 2007 Issue Brenda Maddox On the Stein Trail Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm LR
April 2012 Issue Andrew Hussey Oulipotastic Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature By Daniel Levin Becker LR
February 2005 Issue Henrietta Garnett Arbitrators of the Mind The Strachey Family By Barbara Caine 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.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
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