november 2017 Issue 459 £3.95

Becoming Sylvia Plath Elaine Showalter conrad’s dark horizons John Gray deconstructing calder Charles Darwent liars, thieves & presidents Piers Brendon surrealist encounters Rachel Cohen www.literaryreview.co.uk big bad tech • proust’s dirty tricks • binyon remembered christian vandals • fakirs & dervishes • adrift in brazil