December 2023 Issue Wendy Moore In the Beginning was the Womb Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution By Cat Bohannon LR
July 2022 Issue Joan Smith What Women Really Want The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century By Louise Perry
November 2018 Issue Joan Smith Let Down by Law Eve Was Shamed: How British Justice is Failing Women By Helena Kennedy LR
July 1999 Issue Joan Smith Have Things Changed? Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant To The New Millennium? By Rosalind Coward
April 1984 Issue John Lahr Renegade Brilliance Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility By Germaine Greer
May 2018 Issue Susie Orbach The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty By Jacqueline Rose LR
June 2001 Issue Joan Smith Oprah, Di and Hillary Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage By Elaine Showalter LR
November 1993 Issue Barbara Howell Thine be the Glory Thine the Light Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the Twenty-First Century By Naomi Wolf LR
April 1992 Issue Marybeth Hamilton Those ‘Foolish Women’ Who Stepped Out of Line Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women By Susan Faludi LR
December 1986 Issue Clair Wills The Search for Perfect Love The Madwoman's Underclothes, Essays and Occasional Writings 1968–1985 By Germaine Greer LR
August 1989 Issue Barbara Stevens Heusel Dame Iris at Seventy: An American Examines Her Feminist Record By Iris Murdoch LR
June 1984 Issue Emma Tennant At Your Own Risk The Politics of Sexuality By Anne Snitow, Christine Stansell, Sharon Thompson (Eds)
July 2015 Issue Elif Shafak Tear off the Veil Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution By Mona Eltahawy 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
‘At times, Orbital feels almost like a long poem.’
@sam3reynolds on Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, the winner of this year’s @TheBookerPrizes
Sam Reynolds - Islands in the Sky
Sam Reynolds: Islands in the Sky - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
literaryreview.co.uk
Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
D D Guttenplan - Smiley Redux
D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
literaryreview.co.uk
In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
David Abulafia - Legends of the Phantom Rider
David Abulafia: Legends of the Phantom Rider - El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by Nora Berend
literaryreview.co.uk