Greetings from Armenia, where my friends and I have come for what is turning into a quadrennial foreign get-together. Eight years ago we visited Ghana and Togo, and Kyrgyzstan four years after that. The rules of our overseas trips are simple. We cannot vi... See more
To the Royal Opera House to test the limits of my burgeoning interest in the works of Richard Wagner. Until last week, all I had seen was the first part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Das Rheingold, a relatively easy (it turns out) three-hour romp through the mi... See more
And so, to the Labour Conference I trudge. I have been attending these ever-more corporate events for almost 25 years now (ugh, how depressing). My first was in 2002, aged 18, on the “gap year” my parents feared would turn into a gap life. My dad had driv... See more
From the September 2025 Issue Sign Up to our newsletter Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. @Lit_Review Follow Literary Review on Twitter Twitter Feed "Biological War: A Scenario" by Annie Jacobsen -... See more
From the September 2025 Issue Sign Up to our newsletter Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. @Lit_Review Follow Literary Review on Twitter Twitter Feed When Donald Trump fired him after just eleven da... See more
