For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
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October 2023 Issue

Don Paterson

Tower of Song

Holding the Note: Writing on Music

By David Remnick

August 2021 Issue

Rupert Christiansen

Taking a Bow

Clement Crisp Reviews: Six Decades of Dance

By Gerald Dowler (ed)

August 2021 Issue

Benjamin Riley

In Praise of Dog-Eating

Pedro and Ricky Come Again

By Jonathan Meades

March 2020 Issue

David Gelber

Heroic Work in a Very Important Field

Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times

By Phillipa K Chong

August 1984 Issue

Derek Mahon

Coca-Cola

Under the Volcano

By Malcolm Lowry

Under the Volcano

By Twentieth Century Fox

Jim Holt

Jim Holt sets out to Review Quentin Crisp

April 2002 Issue

DJ Taylor

Uncovered

April 1984 Issue

Susan Marling

Good As Golding

The Paper Men

By William Golding

October 2018 Issue

David McClay

Death by Review

August 1980 Issue

Margaret Forster

On Reviewing

January 1992 Issue

Sebastian Faulks

John Updike’s Awesomely Conscientious Alter Ego

Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

By John Updike

June 2015 Issue

Frances Wilson

Daggers Drawn

From the Pulpit

February 2015 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

Big Game Hunter

When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995–2010

By Tony Judt (Edited by Jennifer Homans)

April 2014 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

Reviewing the Situation

The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books

By John Carey

April 2014 Issue

Seamus Perry

Stylish Mind

Essays and Reviews 1959–2002

By Bernard Williams

Dominic Sandbrook

Bury the Hatchet