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contents february 2 0 2 4 • i s s u e 5 2 6 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editor David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Manager Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classif ed Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell T e Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • ISSN 0144 4360 Tel: 020 7437 9392 • editorial@literaryreview.co.uk letters@literaryreview.co.uk All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, T e Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 terry@literaryreview.co.uk • david.sturge@btopenworld.com Print by: CPUK Print Publishing Ltd, www.cp-uk.co.uk Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: Seymour Distribution Ltd • Tel: 020 7429 4000 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. T e latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | february 2024 2 diary 1 Kathr yn Hughes victorians 6 Norma Clarke Hardy Women: Mothers, Sisters, Wives, Muses Paula Byrne 7 Rosemary Ashton Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain Judith Flanders the state we’re in 9 Richard V Reeves Equality: T e History of an Elusive Idea Darrin M McMahon 11 Jonathan Wolf In the Long Run: T e Future as a Political Idea Jonathan White 12 Justin Mundy Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet Hannah Ritchie history 14 Michael Taylor T e Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition 1776–1888 Robin Blackburn • Survivors: T e Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade Hannah Durkin 15 Rana Mitter T e Price of Collapse: T e Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China Timothy Brook 16 Donald Rayf eld A Nasty Little War: T e West ’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution Anna Reid 18 Daniel Rey How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo 19 Tim Smith-Laing Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750 Noel Malcolm 20 Piers Brendon Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era Alwyn Turner 22 Caroline Moorehead I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped T em Escape the Holocaust Julian Borger • Cold Crematorium: Reporting f rom the Land of Auschwitz József Debreczeni
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contents thinkers 24 Stuart Jef ries We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience Lyndsey Stonebridge 26 Megan Vaughan T e Rebel ’s Clinic: T e Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz spirit of place 28 Jeremy Harte Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Patrick Joyce 29 Susan Owens Time and Tide: T e Long, Long Life of Landscape Fiona Staf ord 30 Cal F lyn Under the Hornbeams: A True Story of Life in the Open Emma Tarlo man & beast 32 Raymond Tallis Determined: Life without Free Will Robert M Sapolsky 33 Charles Foster Why Animals Talk: T e New Science of Animal Communication Arik Kershenbaum 35 James Le Fanu Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its T reat to Public Health James Tabery labour old & new 36 H Kumarasingham T e Wild Men: T e Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government David Torrance 37 Michael White Labour Takes Power: T e Denis MacShane Diaries 1997–2001 Denis MacShane foreign parts 38 Jason Goodwin To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul Alexander Christie-Miller 39 Craig Clunas T e Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East Christopher Harding 41 Hazel Smith T e Sister: T e Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea Sung-Yoon Lee 42 Charlie Gammell T e House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East Barnaby Rogerson general 43 Ian Sansom Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets Clair Wills 44 Gillian Tindall Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark Margaret Willes 45 Bijan Omrani T e Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Bettany Hughes 46 Patricia Fara T e Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia Bengt Jangfeldt 47 Francesca Peacock Alphabetical Diaries Sheila Heti fiction 48 John Burnside My Friends Hisham Matar 49 Sheena Joughin T e Vulnerables Sigrid Nunez 50 James Womack T e Wizard of the Kremlin Giuliano da Empoli 51 Jude Cook What Will Survive of Us Howard Jacobson 52 Sam Kitchener My Heavenly Favourite Lucas Rijneveld 52 Ian Critchley Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel 54 Minoo Dinshaw Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon 54 Richard Canning Day Michael Cunningham fiction in brief 56 Green Dot Madeleine Gray • Come and Get It Kiley Reid • Pity Andrew McMillan • A Mind of Winter Eoghan Smith silenced voices 57 Lucy Popescu Freddy Quezada crime 58 Tim Hornyak T e Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein 60 Natasha Cooper on new crime f ction bookends 64 Nicholas Clee T e End of the Long Lunch 50 LR Bookshop 34 Letters 55 Crossword february 2024 | Literary Review 3

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contents thinkers 24 Stuart Jef ries

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience Lyndsey Stonebridge 26 Megan Vaughan

T e Rebel ’s Clinic: T e Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz spirit of place 28 Jeremy Harte

Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Patrick Joyce 29 Susan Owens

Time and Tide: T e Long, Long Life of Landscape Fiona Staf ord 30 Cal F lyn

Under the Hornbeams: A True Story of Life in the Open Emma Tarlo man & beast 32 Raymond Tallis

Determined: Life without Free Will Robert M Sapolsky 33 Charles Foster

Why Animals Talk: T e New Science of Animal Communication Arik Kershenbaum 35 James Le Fanu

Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its T reat to Public Health James Tabery labour old & new 36 H Kumarasingham

T e Wild Men: T e Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government David Torrance 37 Michael White

Labour Takes Power: T e Denis MacShane Diaries 1997–2001 Denis MacShane foreign parts 38 Jason Goodwin

To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul Alexander Christie-Miller 39 Craig Clunas

T e Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East Christopher Harding 41 Hazel Smith

T e Sister: T e Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea Sung-Yoon Lee 42 Charlie Gammell

T e House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East Barnaby Rogerson general 43 Ian Sansom

Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets Clair Wills 44 Gillian Tindall

Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark Margaret Willes 45 Bijan Omrani

T e Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Bettany Hughes 46 Patricia Fara

T e Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia Bengt Jangfeldt 47 Francesca Peacock

Alphabetical Diaries Sheila Heti fiction 48 John Burnside

My Friends Hisham Matar 49 Sheena Joughin

T e Vulnerables Sigrid Nunez 50 James Womack

T e Wizard of the Kremlin Giuliano da Empoli 51 Jude Cook

What Will Survive of Us Howard Jacobson 52 Sam Kitchener

My Heavenly Favourite Lucas Rijneveld 52 Ian Critchley

Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel 54 Minoo Dinshaw

Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon 54 Richard Canning

Day Michael Cunningham fiction in brief 56 Green Dot Madeleine Gray • Come and Get It Kiley Reid • Pity Andrew McMillan • A Mind of Winter Eoghan Smith silenced voices 57 Lucy Popescu Freddy Quezada crime 58 Tim Hornyak

T e Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein 60 Natasha Cooper on new crime f ction bookends 64 Nicholas Clee T e End of the Long Lunch

50 LR Bookshop 34 Letters 55 Crossword february 2024 | Literary Review

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