Literary Review | February 2026
Norma Clarke on Charlie Chaplin’s London * Richard Bourke on revolution * Lucasta Miller on George Sand * Peter Davidson on Constable * Philippe Marlière on far-right France * Munro Price on the Marquis de Morès * Piers Brendon on Trotsky’s demise * Mark Glancy on Hitchcock’s scores * Felicity Brown on romantic fiction * Simon Nixon on money laundering * Will Wiles on pinball * Joe Moran on the Footlights * Andrew Preston on Robert McNamara * Philip Snow on Chinese communism * Fitzroy Morrissey on the last Ottoman caliph * Hermione Eyre on Jessica Mitford * Michael Burleigh on MAGA * Freya Johnston on Daniel Defoe * Alexander Lee on Henry Wotton * Kapil Komireddi on Buddhist extremism * Miranda Seymour on Russian forests * Zoe Guttenplan on George Saunders * Ben Hutchinson on Gabriele Tergit * Peter Kemp on Julian Barnes * Joseph Williams on Madeline Cash * and much, much more
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Literary Review February 2026.