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October 1979 Issue

Jennifer Birkett

Jennifer Birkett on Provocative Ponge

Frances Ponge, Le Parti pris des chases

By Ian Higgins ed.

Francis Ponge

By Ian Higgins

LR
June 2026 Issue

Duncan Fallowell

Flailing Fornication

Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

By Guy Cuthbertson

LR
May 2026 Issue

Emma Smith

Such Ado

What’s in a Name? How Historians Know Shakespeare Was Shakespeare

By Susan Dwyer Amussen

LR
May 2026 Issue

Adrian Tahourdin

Escargots & Existentialism

En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers

By Peter Fiennes

LR
December 2025 Issue

Mark Ford

Critics in the House

Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays

By Helen Vendler

LR
November 2025 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Between the Lines

Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

LR
November 2025 Issue

D J Taylor

The Magus & Me

LR
November 2025 Issue

Rhodri Lewis

Free Verse?

Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

By Ryan Ruby

LR
June 2025 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

City of Refuge

Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature

By Uwe Wittstock (Translated from German by Daniel Bowles)

LR
March 2025 Issue

Adrian Poole

Cheer Up, Hamlet

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

By Rhodri Lewis

Shakespeare is Hard, but So is Life

By Fintan O’Toole

LR
February 1985 Issue

Margaret Forster

Writing the Future

Rosamond Lehmann

By Gillian Tindall

February 2025 Issue

Ritchie Robertson

No Way Home

Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature

By W G Sebald (Translated from German by Jo Catling)

April 2024 Issue

Rosa Lyster

Two Sides to the Story

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

By Lee Gutkind

LR
March 2024 Issue

Norma Clarke

Her Family & Other Animals

Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence

By Avril Horner

February 2024 Issue

Norma Clarke

Sue Bridehead Revisited

Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

By Paula Byrne

December 2023 Issue

Joanna Kavenna

Unlimited Dream Company

Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

By J G Ballard (Edited by Mark Blacklock)

December 2023 Issue

Rowan Williams

The Poet’s Burden

On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe

By Eva Hoffman

November 2023 Issue

Norma Clarke

The Pen & the Handkerchief

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

By Hilary Mantel

LR
December 1998 Issue

Sean Day-Lewis

Poets Should Choose Their Partners with Care

Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas

By Caitlin Thomas

LR
November 1984 Issue

Michael Hastings

Art of the Personal

T S Eliot

By Peter Ackroyd

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