contents
art 25 William Whyte
William Morris Anna Mason (ed) 26 James Hall
The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon & Narrative David Ekserdjian
philosophy 28 Steven Nadler
Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics Clare Carlisle
literary lives 30 Dennis Duncan
Speaking East: The Strange & Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou Andrew Hussey 31 Ben Hutchinson
Speak, Silence: In Search of W G Sebald Carole Angier 32 Roberta Klimt
Making Darkness Light: The Lives & Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska
history 34 Dmitri Levitin
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 Christopher S Celenza 35 Lucy Wooding
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 Clare Jackson 37 Rebecca Earle
Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico William B Taylor
general 39 Frances Wilson
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces Maria Tatar 40 Jonathan Sumption
Whatever Happened to Tradition? History, Belonging & the Future of the West Tim Stanley 41 James Stourton
Noble Ambitions: The Fall & Rise of the Post-War Country House Adrian Tinniswood 43 Linda Porter
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts & Their Makers Mary Wellesley
fiction 44 Keith Miller
Crossroads Jonathan Franzen 45 Leo Robson
Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney 47 Frank Lawton
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Wole Soyinka 48 Sheena Joughin
Oh William! Elizabeth Strout 49 Anthony Cummins
A Passage North Anuk Arudpragasam 50 Paul Abbott
The Morning Star Karl Ove Knausgaard 51 N J Stallard
Burntcoat Sarah Hall 52 Houman Barekat
A Calling for Charlie Barnes Joshua Ferris 53 Ian Critchley
Making Nice Ferdinand Mount 54 Kevin Power
Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead
notebook 55 Alan Taylor Westward Ho!
fiction in brief 56 Are We Having Fun Yet? Lucy Mangan • Wildlord Philip
Womack • After the Sun Jonas Eika
crime 58 Natasha Cooper
silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu Meral Simşek & Yavuz Ekinci
bookends 64 Matthew Rubery The coming of the podiobook
competition 46 Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a monthly challenge
59 LR Bookshop 38 Letters 24 Crossword
october 2021 | Literary Review 3