Reviews of books by Mara van der Lugt From the February 2022 Issue Strife on Earth Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering By Mara van der Lugt LR ...

It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity. Kate Loveman tells the tale ...

Book Reviews by subject: 19th Century & Britain & Charles Dickens April 1982 Issue Humphrey Carpenter The Elusive Charles Dickens Dickens: Interviews and Recollections By Philip Colins (ed) LR ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...

Book Reviews by subject: Vladimir Nabokov & Literary life & Literature and Literary Criticism May 2017 Issue Mark Dunbar Stings Like a Butterfly The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity. Kate Loveman tells the tale ...

Book Reviews by subject: Literary biography & Biography & Evelyn Waugh December 1986 Issue Auberon Waugh A Little More Whitewash Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903–1939 By Martin Stannard LR ...

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Book Reviews by subject: 20th Century & Sexuality and Gender & Race March 1993 Issue Marybeth Hamilton ‘John’ Thomas Unmasked Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence ...

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