When Dennis Duncan notices the text for a literary jigsaw puzzle had been written by a former colleague, his head spins. A wild surmise. Are jigsaws REF-able?

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In an effort to scold drinkers, Victorian temperance societies furiously marked every drinking establishment with a red X on city maps. It was a spectacular case of propaganda backfiring.

Edward Brooke-Hitching explores the history of drink maps

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How did a workers’ insurance agent who died of tuberculosis at the age of forty become a global literary icon?

Morten Høi Jensen on Kafka's metamorphosis

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We are saddened to hear of the death of Alice Munro. In celebration of her work, we've unpaywalled Cressida Connolly's interview with her from our March 1987 issue.

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Don't ask about the dress code, don't talk about your spouse too much, flirt with everyone

Andrew Martin on the rules, pleasures and pitfalls of living in Paris

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for the latest edition of Literary Review I worked on some excellent pieces – Morten Høi Jensen on Kafka
ella fox-martens 🛸 on Honor Levy (Honor Levy)
Rhodri Lewis on Shakespeare novels
Ed Cumming on Kaliane Bradley
zoe g on National Theatre's Dickens show
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wrote about MY FIRST BOOK (Granta Books) for Literary Review, a book that I think makes difficult things look very easy: literaryreview.co.uk/self-portrait-…

I wrote about Dr Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai’s exhibiton at National Army Museum and their brilliant collection ‘Shakespeare at War’ for Literary Review! literaryreview.co.uk/once-more-unto…

Wrote about Kafka for the May issue of Literary Review - thanks Leo Robson for the opportunity!

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An honour to review Salman Rushdie’s latest for Literary Review; Marcus Aurelius via Hyacinth Bucket and Götterdämmerung.

A pleasure to write my first piece for Literary Review; thanks to Leo Robson for asking me. I wish I’d liked the titles under review—two novelistic riffs on Shakespeare—a little better.

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“The Body In The Mobile Library is mischievous, often raunchy and always teetering on perversity.” - Thanks to Tommy Gilhooly of @lit_review for this lovely review!

The May issue of Literary Review is out now: literaryreview.co.uk

Antony Spawforth on forgotten Cleopatras
Daisy on ancient poetry
Dennis Duncan on jigsaws
Rhodri Lewis on Shakespearian fiction
Georgina Adam on art world fraud

and much, much more

We're happy to partner with the 2024 Hubert Butler Essay Prize, which is now accepting entries, with a top prize of €1,500 and a distinguished range of judges:

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“You defang hierarchies not by denying them but by multiplying them.” - From my ⁦Literary Review⁩ review of Darrin McMahon’s superb study of equality literaryreview.co.uk/why-some-are-m…

‘I have to change’, Miles Davis once said. ‘It’s like a curse.’

Richard Williams tells the story of how Davis made jazz cool.
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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson - review by Terry Eagleton literaryreview.co.uk/supermarket-of… via Literary Review

for the new(ish) April issue of Literary Review I commissioned a number of pieces, including Deborah Levy on Bowie, Rosa Lyster on creative non-fiction, Jon Savage on Pulp, mike harrison on Oyamada, Richard Williams on Kind of Blue, Chris Power on HGarner
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Interview with Iris Murdoch by John Haffenden literaryreview.co.uk/john-haffenden… via Literary Review

I love Helen Garner and this, by Chris Power in Literary Review, is excellent.