Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea
Emily Wilson
Reviews
Literary Review
Britain’s monthly of reviews, for readers more than for scholars
2026
We Are Not Machines
Sarah O’Connor
Anni Albers
Nicholas Fox Weber
Long Wave
Daisy Johnson
Hannah Arendt
Thomas Meyer (Translated from German by Shelley Frisch)
How to Make a Woman
Marie Darrieussecq (Translated from French by Penny Hueston)
The Dark Side of France
Enda O’Doherty
Rex Juba
Andrew Kenrick
Medea Sang Me a Corrido
Dahlia de la Cerda (Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary
Passage
Colin Thubron
The Beverly Hills Housewife
James Cahill
Rudolf II
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Arachnomania
Maria Tatar
Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters
Daniel A. Bell
A Chorus of Ears
Denise Riley
Stolen Revolution
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati
Mario Vargas Llosa
Gerald Martin
Vanishing Japan
Naomi Pollock
Land
Maggie O’Farrell
The Cultural Lives of Greyhounds
John Stokes
Beginning Middle End
Valeria Luiselli
Walking Shadow
Greg Doran
Collapse
Jonathan Fennell
John Berger
Tom Overton
A Golden World
Lauren Working
The Poems of Sylvia Plath
Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil (eds)
The Script of the Stones
Francis Gooding
A Vast Horizon
Anna Thomasson
Biological War
Annie Jacobsen
Life of M
Rachel Cusk
