Literary Review | August 2025
Edward Short on Mark Twain * Mark Ford on James Schuyler * Angela Tilby on St Augustine * Dmitri Levitin on Einstein * Howard Davies on Trump's tariffs * Peter Marshall on James I * Philip Parker on Carthage * Bijan Omrani on gladiators * Edward Vallance on the English Revolution * Robert Steele on the fall of the shah * David Leeder on HS2 * Nick Higham on Shakespeare on stage * Peter Rose on Helen Garner * Maria Margaronis on Cavafy * Piers Brendon on Churchill & de Gaulle * Tim Richardson on trees * Norma Clarke on Maria Cosway * Aaron Labaree on photography * Zoe Guttenplan on typography * Cosmo Adair on Nicola Barker * Matthew Sterling on Ben Pester * Lily Isaacs on Edgar Keret * Lucy Moore on AI books * and much, much more
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Literary Review August 2025.