Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books by Eric Marshall White ...
Looking at the triumphs and turpitude of the modern world, the temptation is always to seek someone responsible. In 1900, succumbing to that temptation, Mark Twain pointed to the 15th …
Literary Review | For People Who Devour Books
4 days ago · In the Current Issue: Nicola Shulman on Princess Diana * Sophie Oliver on Gertrude Stein * Costica Bradatan on Pascal * Howard Davies on the dollar * Joseph Hone on …
Dianaworld: An Obsession by Edward White - review by Nicola …
May 1, 2025 · Nicola Shulman: Kind Hearts & Coronets - Dianaworld: An Obsession by Edward White
Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn - review by Paul Genders
May 1, 2025 · The opening pages of Edward St Aubyn’s new novel – his eleventh – may surprise readers familiar only with his highly successful Patrick Melrose series.
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade - review by Sophie …
May 1, 2025 · It’s not often that a biography really gets going after the author has reached the subject’s death. Gertrude Stein herself predicted that she would only be understood in the …
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The vast geographical spread of the Indo-European (IE) languages is rivalled only by that of the Malayo-Polynesian ones. Explaining the causes of the enormous landward spread of IE …
Richard Williams - With a Little Help from My Friend
John Lennon and Paul McCartney were still in formal education – the first at art college, the second at grammar school – when they began to compose songs together. As the journalist …
Issue 539 | Literary Review
4 days ago · Peter Rose on Henry James * Piers Brendon on Russian spies * Lucy Moore on Josephine Baker * Seamus Perry on William Blake * Anthony Pagden on the Americas * John …
Baltic: The Future of Europe by Oliver Moody - review by Owen …
Are the Baltic Sea states, as former Estonian president Lennart Meri once put it, the factory of Europe’s future? Oliver Moody’s brilliantly written, convincingly argued and compelling book …
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
During the Cold War, 260,000 lightweight copies of Animal Farm floated into eastern Europe, carried by balloons. They were part of the CIA’s huge covert operation to slip ‘cultural …