It's 'all lively and entertaining but rather too black and white. Her account of British politics and the success of the Brexit campaign verges on the cartoonish.'

@David_Goodhart on Anne Applebaum's 'Twilight on Democracy'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-tale-of-two-parties

'Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books, once asked Isaiah Berlin who his ideal dinner guest would be. Without hesitation Berlin exclaimed, ‘William James!’'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-pragmatists-progress

'She digs her images into her story, so that they blow up like psychic land mines when the reader’s perception brushes against them.'

Hilary Mantel reviewing Margaret Atwood: a #BookerPrize double-header from the archive.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-realist-with-wings