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In the Current Issue: Freya Johnston on Handel’s Messiah * Nicholas McDowell on John Milton * Fiona Sampson on Syliva Plath * D J Taylor on Tom Sharpe * Richard Vinen on Boris Johnson * Pratinav Anil on the ruling class * Bijan Omrani on women in the ancient world * Nicholas Rankin on Oxford at war * Howard Davies on Germany’s economic miracle * Alex de Waal on Ethiopia * David Abulafia on ...
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In the Current Issue: At the age of thirty-seven William Morris went off to Iceland to reassess his life (or lives) to date. From a sunny, well-heeled childhood – his father was a bill broker who died shortly and luckily before his business collapsed – Morris went to rough-tough Marlborough, where he learnt next to nothing because, he said, 'next to nothing was taught', and on to Exeter ...
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Freya Johnston on Handel’s Messiah * Nicholas McDowell on John Milton * Fiona Sampson on Syliva Plath * D J Taylor on Tom Sharpe * Richard Vinen on Boris Johnson * Pratinav Anil on the ruling class * Bijan Omrani on women in the ancient world * Nicholas Rankin on Oxford at war * Howard Davies on Germany’s economic miracle * Alex de Waal on Ethiopia * …
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The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That ...
W 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.
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - review by Hilary Mantel
Read more by Hilary Mantel In Sure and Certain Hope of the Resurrection Pain In The Desert Conjuring Tricks Country Life Too Much Tallent When in doubt, move
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
‘To see Dickens day by day,’ writes Peter Ackroyd, ‘making his way, the incidents of his existence shaping his fiction just as his fiction alters his life, the same pattern of emotion and imagery rising up from letters and novels and conversations, the same momentum and the same desire for control – to see Dickens thus is to turn biography into an agent of true knowledge…’
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Elaine Showalter
A few years ago, I was talking to Joyce Carol Oates, who teaches Creative Writing at Princeton University, about a poem she had written describing a deer in her garden.
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson - review by Emma Garman
N ellie Coker, fresh from a spell in Holloway Prison, is back doing what she does best: presiding over the ‘filthy, glittering underbelly of London’ in her five Soho nightclubs. The year is 1926 and catering to the era’s hedonistic mood is a lucrative game – especially if, like ‘Old Ma’ Coker, you employ most of your six children to do so.