Literary Review

Literary Review is a UK-based literary magazine that started in 1979, thanks to Anne Smith, who was the head of the English Department at Edinburgh University at that time. Today, the magazine operates from its offices on Lexington Street in Soho, London, and has a circulation of 44,750 copies. Auberon Waugh, an experienced journalist, served as the editor for fourteen years. Currently, the magazine is edited by Nancy Sladek.

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Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John

3 weeks ago | literaryreview.co.uk | Judith Mackrell

As Dorothy Rowe’s classic study My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend explains, sibling relationships – invariably intense, often fraught – are among the most underexamined of familial connections. Although every sibling strives to create a unique place in the world, inescapably their longest relationships will be with loved, ignored or actively disliked brothers and sisters. Gifted siblings with intertwined lives present a fascinating challenge for the biographer.
Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere

3 weeks ago | literaryreview.co.uk | James Bloodworth

‘Dad,’ my son said in early 2022. ‘You can’t write a book about boys and men without mentioning Andrew Tate.’ I responded with the question millions of parents have probably asked: ‘Who is Andrew Tate?’ Then I looked him up. He struck me as a brash masculinist with a medium-sized following. I decided he didn’t merit a mention in the book. But my son was right.
Malcolm Forbes - Back in Town

1 month ago | literaryreview.co.uk | Leo Robson

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When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines

2 months ago | literaryreview.co.uk | Graydon Carter

Can Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 to 2017, possibly be that nice? His friends – and there are lots, going back forever – say he is. And he comes across in this delicious autobiography as almost excessively level-headed and bright-side-of-lifeish.
America, América: A New History of the New World

2 months ago | literaryreview.co.uk | Greg Grandin

‘South America’, declared the North American Review in the early 19th century, ‘will be to North America what Asia and Africa are to Europe.’ ‘Not quite,’ says Greg Grandin. But also not for want of trying. America, América is the by turns woeful, despairing and ironic tale of the USA’s sustained attempts to turn its southern neighbours into clients or dependencies, if not colonies.
The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West

2 months ago | literaryreview.co.uk | Shaun Walker

Like many who work in secret intelligence services, Vladimir Putin was heavily influenced by spy fiction. His imagination was coloured by novels and films, and he spoke of his amazement that ‘one man’s efforts could achieve what whole armies could not. One spy could decide the fate of thousands of people.’ Putin was especially entranced by the immensely popular television series Seventeen Moments of Spring, first shown in 1973 and often repeated.
Ella Fox-Martens - Nightmare on Fleet Street

Mar 1, 2025 | literaryreview.co.uk | Natasha Brown

Natasha Brown’s second novel begins as an exposé written by a journalist unravelling a mystery. A solid gold bar belonging to a banker has gone missing from his farmhouse; it was previously used to knock out the leader of an illegal rave being held there. The episode, the journalist writes, is a ‘modern parable … exposing the fraying fabric of British society’. Brown relishes mocking the overblown tone of the type of investigative article that routinely goes viral on Twitter.
Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer

Mar 1, 2025 | literaryreview.co.uk | Patrick Maguire |Gabriel Pogrund

Where does power lie within Keir Starmer’s strange government? In the case of other recent administrations, the question of who held power was relatively easy to answer. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown shared it awkwardly and stressfully – their government was close to a duopoly. Follow closely the amicable dance between Cameron and Osborne, with the occasional swerve towards Clegg, and the dynamics of the potentially complex coalition were easy to read.
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami - review by George Monaghan

Mar 1, 2025 | literaryreview.co.uk | Laila Lalami

In her celebrated novels, Laila Lalami has drawn inspiration from history and immigrant culture. The Moor’s Account (2014), longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, follows a North African slave on a journey from Spain to the New World. The Other Americans (2019) describes the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant and restaurateur in California. In The Dream Hotel, Lalami portrays a much starker world.
A Training School for Elephants

Mar 1, 2025 | literaryreview.co.uk | Sophy Roberts

On 27 May 1879, the steamer Chinsura arrived at the port of Stone Town in Zanzibar with the Irish adventurer Frederick Carter and four Indian elephants on board.