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WEBLiterary Review covers the most important and interesting books published each month, from history and biography to fiction and travel. The magazine was founded in 1979 and is based in central London. September 2024, Issue 533 Claire Harman on female detectives * Georgina Adam on art market scandal * John Keay on the Indosphere * Philip Womack ...
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The Promise by Damon Galgut - review by David Isaacs - Literary …
WEBThe Uncle Charles Principle ‘entails writing about someone much as that someone would choose to be written about’. In his strange, skilful, spellbinding eighth novel, The Promise, the South African author Damon Galgut modifies this principle. Galgut’s third-person narrator swings, like Joyce’s, effortlessly from character to character ...
To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape - Literary Review
WEBBy Charles Spencer. William Collins 314pp £20. On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king related to him in great detail his personal recollections of the six weeks he had spent as a ...
The Trees by Percival Everett - review by Houman Barekat
WEBInflux Press 335pp £9.99. Percival Everett’s The Trees is a strange beast. Part police procedural, part black comedy, the novel is both irreverently silly and deadly serious. It begins in the cruelly named one-horse town of Money, Mississippi, where a white man and a black man are found dead. The former has been garrotted and mutilated; his ...
Middle England by Jonathan Coe - review by Mark Lawson
WEBIn an author’s note at the end of Middle England, Coe admits that he had no previous intention of creating a Rotters’ trilogy, but, keen to fictionalise the strange days of the UK’s attempt to leave the EU, came to see the logic of reusing established characters. Certainly, there’s an attractive neatness in the third book completing a ...
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That ...
WEBW ith The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of course, is most literary criticism. The Real Lolita is, by any measure, a unique and very peculiar book.. The sad real-life story of Sally Horner, as recounted by Weinman, goes like this.
Simon Sebag Montefiore - Literary Review
WEBPeter the Great died in 1725 at the age of just fifty-two, exhausted by his incessant travels, wars, parties and reforms, to be succeeded by a peasant girl with no relation whatsoever to the Romanov dynasty. Hers, too, is a remarkable story. Peter requires no revisionism but he benefits from Hughes’s light touch and authoritative analysis.
The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the …
WEBThe sequel to Iain McGilchrist’s much-lauded The Master and His Emissary (2009) occupies two mighty volumes. Nearly 1,600 pages of text are supported by 2,500 references and thousands of footnotes soliciting the reader’s attention from the margins of the pages. The purpose of this magnum opus is ...