October 2000 Issue Andrew Taylor A Hero at the End Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis By Paul O'Keeffe Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer By Paul Edwards LR
October 2018 Issue Piers Brendon Cometh the Hour Churchill: Walking with Destiny By Andrew Roberts Churchill: The Statesman as Artist By David Cannadine (ed)
August 1996 Issue A S Byatt They Sang Against Each Other Most Harmoniously Matisse's War By Peter Everett LR
May 2000 Issue Lynn H Nicholas Naming the Guilty Men The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany By Jonathan Petropoulos LR
October 2007 Issue Virginia Ironside War and Paint Camouflage and Art: Design for Deception in World War II By Henrietta Goodden LR
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The novelist Angela Thirkell is due a revival, says Patricia T O'Conner (£).
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'Only in Britain, perhaps, could spy chiefs – conventionally viewed as masters of subterfuge – be so highly regarded as ethical guides.'
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-spy-who-taught-me
In this month's Bookends, @AdamCSDouglas looks at the curious life of Henry Labouchere: a friend of Bram Stoker, 'loose cannon', and architect of the law that outlawed homosexual activity in Britain.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-gross-indecency