Literary Review | November 2025
Jeremy Noel-Tod on Seamus Heaney * Kathryn Murphy on Vermeer * Kirsten Tambling on two 18th-century artists * Sophie Oliver on Katherine Mansfield * Lucy Lethbridge on reading * Tom Shippey on the first king of England * Daniel Rey on Christopher Columbus * Nigel Jones on U-boats * Richard Vinen on the Second World War * John Phipps on John le Carré * Julian Baggini on effective altruism * William Whyte on Hertford College, Oxford * Patrick Galbraith on Rory Stewart * John Gribbin on Francis Crick * Maren Meinhardt on Sarah Perry * James Cahill on Sally Mann * D J Taylor on John Fowles * Simon Heffer on classical music * Richard Dyer on film scores * Miranda Seymour on wolves * Felicity Cloake on pizza * Mark Lawson on John Irving * Pratinav Anil on Salman Rushdie * Claudia FitzHerbert on Philip Pullman * and much, much more…
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Literary Review November 2025.