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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 ...
Alberto Manguel - Unpacking My Library
WEBUnpacking My Library. In these days of melancholic confinement, when the future seems even more uncertain than usual, I turn instinctively to books that have long offered me comfort and consolation. Among these dog-eared companions are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, the poems of Miguel Hernández and Plato’s ...
Cut Out by Michèle Roberts - review by Amanda Craig - Literary …
WEBAug 1, 2021 · C ut Out is the story of two people, a young ‘country mouse’ called Clémence, or Clem, whose relationship with an artist and his mistress leads to her running away from home, and a gay man, Denis, her long-lost godson, who is invited to meet her in Nice many years later. What is the mystery his deceased French mother has kept from him? Why has Clem sent him a piece of blue paper that ...
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris - review by Sam Kitchener
WEBThe ‘act of oblivion’ in the title of Robert Harris’s latest novel is in its most straightforward sense the Indemnity and Oblivion Act introduced by Charles’s government. The act granted pardons – with some exceptions – to anyone who committed crimes during the Civil War, or the Interregnum that spanned the years between the ...
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - review by Julian Barnes
WEBBy Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber 245pp £11.99. Kazuo Ishiguro has been widely praised for his ‘Japanese’ virtues as a writer: delicacy, subtlety, quiet irony, watercolour tones, etc. The fact that he was born in Japan and set his first two novels there makes such ethno-critical diagnosis easier. On the other hand, the listed qualities could just ...
Dornford Yates by A J Smithers - review by Richard Usborne
WEBBy A J Smithers. Hodder & Stoughton 256pp £8.95. ‘Dornford Yates’ was the pen-name of novelist William Mercer, 1885–1960. Of all the authors whose fiction has got about my wits, none has tempted me so clamorously to find out about his factual life. Where was, and what was the real name of, Gracedieu, the dream ‘House That Berry Built ...
Grant by Ron Chernow - review by Richard Carwardine - Literary …
WEBRon Chernow’s Grant brings an eloquent voice to the ongoing work of rehabilitation. Only last year Ronald C White’s American Ulysses extolled Grant’s deep faith, sense of honour, commitment to racial justice and essential decency. But in Chernow’s hands Grant becomes an even more heroic figure. A prizewinning biographer with a gift for ...