2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (179+ words) Now we have a new biographical study, The Illuminated Man, cowritten by the late Christopher Priest and his wife, Nina Allan, both of them SF writers. Like Baxter before them, the authors hint that Ballard's relationship with his son and…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (179+ words) Despite almost persuading herself that a mallet wielded by the protagonist Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson in the film) is a stand-in for the dagger that Macbeth sees before him, Bicks was not convinced that the Scottish play provided…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (240+ words) Family History, Literary life Some while back, the literary biography industry slowed as it began to run out of subjects to write about. It found a new avenue in studies of the wives of writers. Since then, it has broadened…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (133+ words) See all articles byPiers Brendon Browse our selection of reviewed and recommended books Follow Literary Review on Twitter Antiquary, biographer, folklorist and natural philosopher John Aubrey was born in this month four hundred years ago. To mark his quadricentennial,Peter…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (194+ words) Espionage, Russia & the Soviet Union In 1964, Blunt, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, overseeing the royal art collection, secretly confessed to spying for Moscow after hard evidence emerged against him in the United States. The Queen was not officially told until…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (154+ words) Browse our selection of reviewed and recommended books Follow Literary Review on Twitter In fact, anyone handwringing about the current state of children's fiction can look at over 20 years' worth of my children's book round-ups for @Lit_Review, all FREE to view,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (207+ words) Szabo's book opens with the salutary experience of the biotechnology company Amgen, just over a decade ago, which first drew attention to the issue of reliability. In a brief, if seismic, commentary in the journal Nature, Amgen's director described the…...

1+ mon, 15+ hour ago  (162+ words) Art, History of Art, Impressionism & Post-Impressionism Browse our selection of reviewed and recommended books Follow Literary Review on Twitter In fact, anyone handwringing about the current state of children's fiction can look at over 20 years' worth of my children's book…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (161+ words) Margaret Atwood has "always found snivelling in public embarrassing. Light on introspection, even lighter on confession, Book of Lives is thus only a memoir "of sorts: a 600-page chronicle of her life and times, in which one of our most…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (156+ words) Sometimes one has to stand back from the almost overwhelming daily minutiae of these splendidly edited letters to gain a sense of the larger drama of what is going on. Even then, Eliot's life is not easy to piece together....