Literary Review

For those of you unfamiliar with the Litery Review, you may want to check this out:

LITERARY REVIEW NEWSLETTER: June 08


An exclusive look at the contents of this month’s issue – visit www.literaryreview.co.uk to see a sample of the magazine online

Spartans of the Plain
For over a hundred years, the Comanche Indians ruled large areas of south-western USA and northern Mexico. Frank McLynn investigates the rise and fall of their empire.

Words of Love
Frances Wilson twitches her curtain and takes a peek at the unconventional lives of the bed-hopping Bloomsberries.

Sky Burials in the Land of the Snows
All eyes are on China this year. Jonathan Mirsky looks at a memoir of a year in Tibet and praises the leadership of the Dalai Lama.

Tale of the Tsars
Nikolai Tolstoy acclaims a new history of the Romanovs, a dynasty who came to power almost by accident, and an account of their grisly demise in Ekaterinburg.

General Plan East
The Nazis gave little thought to how they would rule their empire. Richard Overy hails a magisterial history of the violence wreaked on the conquered peoples of Europe.

Firbank, Bellini and Rare Steak
Peter McDonald wades through the third volume of Auden’s collected prose, and finds the prolific critic both provocative and infuriating.

Plus:
Ladies of the Right: Ffion Hague on Lloyd George’s Ladies
Frances Osborne on the model for Nancy Mitford’s Bolter.

Kevin Myers makes the prosecution’s case against Paisley.
Michael Burleigh takes issue with a new solution to the terror threat.

DEATH: Michael Waterhouse on euthanasia and immortality
John Gray on Susan Sontag’s last days.

Stephen Amidon saddles up in the American West.
Bruce Palling travels around the world of Norman Lewis.
Adam LeBor on a Turkish tragedy.

Richard Barber confronts the Black Death.
John Cornwell voyages around his head.
Stephen Halliday slums it in the Victorian East End.

ALL THIS AND MUCH MORE INSIDE THE JUNE ISSUE OF BRITAIN’S BEST-LOVED LITERARY MAGAZINE

Next month, in the July issue: Frances Spalding on Artists’ Wives * Christopher Sylvester on Hitchcock’s Blondes * Lisa Jardine on Vermeer’s World * Simon Heffer on the Kit-Cat Club * Catherine Peters on J M Barrie * Sudhir Hazareesingh on Revolutionary France * Philip Davis on Shakespeare and the Brain… and much, much more.