Literary Review | October 2025
John Adamson on the origins of news * Ritchie Robertson on Goethe * Stephen Smith on Basquiat * Robert Hazell on constitutional monarchy * Anna Reid on oil and the First World War * Thomas W Hodgkinson on Oscar Wilde * Alexander Lee on vampires * Paul Genders on Pynchon * Philip Womack on Winnie-the-Pooh * Will Wiles on the art of ventilation shafts * Anne Billson on blondes * Richard Vinen on terrorism * D J Taylor on campus novels * Mark Lawson on Dennis Potter * Mark Cornwall on anti-Nazi rebels * Tom Fort on fish * Bryan Appleyard on Tim Berners-Lee * Caroline Moorehead on Arundhati Roy * Wendy Holden on Mary Portas * Susan-Mary Grant on the US Constitution * Nicola Shulman on Juliet Nicolson * Michael Taylor on the World Cup * Zoe Guttenplan on Claire-Louise Bennett * Edmund Gordon on Woody Allen * Stevie Davies on William Boyd * Emma Smith on bookmarks * and much, much more
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Literary Review October 2025.