2 days ago · ‘This magazine is flush with tight, smart writing.’ Washington Post Literary Review covers the most important and interesting books published each month, from history and …

In the middle of March 1931, Virginia Woolf wrote a polite letter to a woman sixteen years her junior. The recipient, a feminist writer named Winifred Holtby, was embarking on a book-length …

A basic duty of any reviewer is to say what the work in question is about. That is something of a challenge in this case. William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love is obviously, and …

When Donald J Trump took over the Republican movement in the mid-2010s, party moderates cooked up a myth: Trump had stolen the Grand Old Party from without; he wasn’t even a real …

6 days ago · About Literary Review covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction. Each issue contains sixty-four pages of reviews from …

Tanya Harrod: Cut from the Same Canvas - Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell

Helen Carr’s Sceptred Isle is a lively work of popular history. Her writing is pacy and she has an eye for enlivening anecdotes and colourful details. She has certainly done her homework in …

Virginia Woolf memorably claimed that ‘on or about December 1910 human character changed’. She was referring to the opening in London of the exhibition ‘Manet and the Post …

It’s not often that a biography really gets going after the author has reached the subject’s death. Gertrude Stein herself predicted that she would only be understood in the future: ‘For a very …

About halfway through this novel, an astronaut called Pietro reflects that ‘if you could get far enough away from the earth you’d be able finally to understand it’. This is a neat summation of …