June 2024 Issue
William Whyte
Scholarship, Slander & Sherry
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft
By Richard Davenport-Hines
April 2024 Issue
Caroline Moorehead
Traitor or Humanitarian?
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
By Roland Philipps
LR
February 2024 Issue
Hazel Smith
Mona Lisa of Pyongyang
The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea
By Sung-Yoon Lee
LR
February 2022 Issue
Thomas Blaikie
Gold, Frankincense & Mozzarella
Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents
By Paul Brummell
LR
November 2020 Issue
Farzana Shaikh
Caught Between Allah & America
The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
By Owen Bennett-Jones
The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto
By Victoria Schofield
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation
By Declan Walsh
May 2020 Issue
Thomas W Laqueur
The Sense of Shame
The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History
By Ute Frevert (Translated from German by Adam Bresnahan)
March 2020 Issue
David Gilmour
Rogues & Republicans
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874–2018
By Paul Preston
LR
December 2019 Issue
Bernard Porter
The Past is Another Country
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit
By David Reynolds
LR
July 2000 Issue
Roy Porter
It Is No Yoke
The Republic of Britain: 1760 to the Present
By Frank Prochaska
LR
March 2000 Issue
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Still Around
The New Century: In Conversation with Antonio Politio
By Eric Hobsbawm
LR
March 2000 Issue
Mark Almond
There Are, Indeed, Some Lessons to be Learned
Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
By Michael Ignatieff
Kosovo: War and Revenge
By Tim Judah
LR
November 2019 Issue
Richard Vinen
The Iron Lady & the Little Men
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three – Herself Alone
By Charles Moore
November 2019 Issue
Avi Shilon
Israel or Bust
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
By Tom Segev (Translated from Hebrew by Haim Watzman)
LR
November 2019 Issue
Owen Matthews
Sultan on Speed Dial
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
By Hannah Lucinda Smith
September 2019 Issue
Christian Goeschel
Portraits in Tyranny
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
By Frank Dikötter
LR
August 1999 Issue
Michael Portillo
Revisiting the Perils of Appeasement
Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party
By Graham Stewart
June 1980 Issue
Frederic Raphael
Higher Gossip
Breaking Ranks, a Political Memoir
By Norman Podhoretz
LR
August 2018 Issue
John Pollard
Behind the Tiara
Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World
By Paul Collins
LR
February 1998 Issue
Brian Walden
A First-Class Man to Study these Mediocrities
The Road to Number 10: From Bonar Law to Tony Blair
By Alan Watkins
LR
April 2018 Issue
Tim Stanley
A Valediction to Power
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
By Kyle Longley
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
In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors.
Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution.
Peter Marshall - Down with the Ox Tax!
Peter Marshall: Down with the Ox Tax! - Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper
literaryreview.co.uk
The Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who died yesterday, reviewed many books on Russia & spying for our pages. As he lived under threat of assassination, books had to be sent to him under ever-changing pseudonyms. Here are a selection of his pieces:
Literary Review - For People Who Devour Books
Book reviews by Oleg Gordievsky
literaryreview.co.uk
The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened.
@StephenSmithWDS wonders how two East End gadflies infiltrated the Eastern Bloc.
Stephen Smith - From Russia with Lucre
Stephen Smith: From Russia with Lucre - Gilbert & George and the Communists by James Birch
literaryreview.co.uk