November 2022 Issue Simon Briscoe Damned Statistics Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers By Georgina Sturge LR
April 2022 Issue Tim Smith-Laing What Are the Odds? Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations By David Flusfeder Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk By DBC Pierre LR
September 2019 Issue Manjit Kumar Coming Full Circle Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus – The Language of the Universe By Steven Strogatz LR
June 2019 Issue Simon Briscoe Stat Craft The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data By David Spiegelhalter LR
May 2019 Issue Andrew Crumey Fine Figures The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets By Graham Farmelo LR
February 2019 Issue John Gribbin Of Coal & Calculus Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton – Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel By Benjamin Wardhaugh LR
July 1997 Issue George Stern Useful Occupations Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years By Simon Singh Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem By Amir D Aczel LR
March 2016 Issue John Banville Sympathy for the Bedevilled The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother By Ulinka Rublack LR
April 2015 Issue Andrew Crumey Go Forth & Multiply Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure By Cédric Villani (Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise) LR
March 2015 Issue Jonathan Rée To Infinities & Beyond Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation By Michael Harris LR
July 2010 Issue Jonathan Beckman Eucliding Me? Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics By Alex Bellos LR
July 2008 Issue David Singmaster Here’s Looking at Euclid Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life By Robin Wilson LR
July 2007 Issue Alexander Masters Igum and Igibum Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra By John Derbyshire LR
December 2012 Issue Patricia Fara You Do the Math Poor Robin’s Prophecies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain By Benjamin Wardhaugh LR
March 2013 Issue David Collard The Philosopher’s Philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903–1930): A Sister’s Memoir By Margaret Paul LR
February 2014 Issue Christopher Bray The Sumpsons The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets By Simon Singh 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
London's East End was long synonymous with poverty and sweatshops, while its West End was associated with glamour and high society. But when it came to the fashion industry, were the differences really so profound?
Sharman Kadish - Winkle-pickers & Bum Freezers
Sharman Kadish: Winkle-pickers & Bum Freezers - Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style; Fashion City: ...
literaryreview.co.uk
In 1982, Donald Rumsfeld presented Saddam Hussein with a pair of golden spurs. Two decades later he was dropping bunker-busting bombs on his palaces.
Where did the US-Iraqi relationship go wrong?
Rory Mccarthy - The Case of the Vanishing Missiles
Rory Mccarthy: The Case of the Vanishing Missiles - The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the ...
literaryreview.co.uk
Barbara Comyns was a dog breeder, a house painter, a piano restorer, a landlady... And a novelist.
@nclarke14 on the lengths 20th-century women writers had to go to make ends meet:
Norma Clarke - Her Family & Other Animals
Norma Clarke: Her Family & Other Animals - Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence by Avril Horner
literaryreview.co.uk