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contents july 2021 • issue 498 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • 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 Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell The 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, The 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. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | july 2021 2 diary 1 D J Taylor history 6 John Adamson The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris Colin Jones 8 Tim Stanley King Richard: Nixon & Watergate – an American Tragedy Michael Dobbs 9 Maurice Frank Blood and Iron: The Rise & Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 Katja Hoyer • Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa Steven Press 11 Keith Lowe The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier Max Egremont 13 David Abulafia City of Illusions: A History of Granada Helen Rodgers & Stephen Cavendish flora & fauna 14 Julian Baggini How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World Henry Mance 15 Charlie Pye-Smith Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – & Us Patrick Roberts • A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World Fred Pearce poetry 17 William Wootten Encounters with Walter de la Mare art & architecture 18 Tanya Harrod Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction Anne Umland & Walburga Krupp, with Charlotte Healy (edd) • Sophie Taeuber-Arp: A Life through Art Silvia Boadella 19 William Whyte Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism Owen Hatherley • Mass Housing: Modern Architecture & State Power – a Global History Miles Glendinning open minds 21 Cal Flyn Retreat: The Risks & Rewards of Stepping Back from the World Nat Segnit 22 A J Lees This is Your Mind on Plants: Opium – Caffeine – Mescaline Michael Pollan
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contents 24 Anthony David Connections: A Story of Human Feeling Karl Deisseroth biography & memoir 25 Daniel Swift The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, & US Writers Lauren Arrington 26 David Gelber Holland Blind Twilight John Martin Robinson 27 Bernard O’Donoghue Simple Annals: A Memoir of Early Childhood Roy Watkins 28 Suzi Feay You are Beautiful and You are Alone: The Biography of Nico Jennifer Otter Bickerdike 30 Thomas W Hodgkinson A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist Chris Paling 31 Rupert Christiansen Arthur Sullivan: A Life of Divine Emollient Ian Bradley cinema 32 Peter Conrad Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story Laura Fairrie (dir) the state we’re in 34 Michael Burleigh Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History Alex von Tunzelmann 35 Michael Javen Fortner America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence & Black Rebellion Since the 1960s Elizabeth Hinton 37 Vicky Pryce The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, & What We Can Do About It Mary Ann Sieghart 38 Ian Fraser The Key Man: How the Global Elite was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale Simon Clark & Will Louch notebook 40 Carole Angier Writing W G Sebald’s biography general 42 Patricia Fara About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks David Rooney 43 Tim Hornyak The New Breed: How to Think About Robots Kate Darling 44 Daisy Dunn Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz & Horizon Magazine Will Loxley 45 Michael Smith Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them Tom Gatti (ed) 46 Nigel Andrew The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides Adam Nicolson 47 Simon Heffer Bretons and Britons: The Fight for Identity Barry Cunliffe 48 Malcolm Murfett Why War? Christopher Coker fiction 50 Anthony Cummins Batlava Lake Adam Mars-Jones 51 Paul Bailey Nostalgia Mircea Cărtărescu 52 Laurel Berger At Night All Blood is Black David Diop 53 David Isaacs The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen 54 David Annand Panenka Rónán Hession 55 Michael Eaude Yesterday Juan Emar 56 Laura Hackett Interviews with an Ape Felice Fallon fiction in brief 57 Nightbitch Rachel Yoder • Three Rooms Jo Hamya • Hummingbird Salamander Jeff VanderMeer • The Coward Jarred McGinnis crime 58 Natasha Cooper silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu on Nedim Türfent & Osman Kavala bookends 64 Angus Gowland on The Anatomy of Melancholy competition 23 Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a new monthly competition 59 LR Bookshop 39 Letters 12 Crossword july 2021 | Literary Review 3

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24 Anthony David

Connections: A Story of Human Feeling Karl Deisseroth biography & memoir 25 Daniel Swift

The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, & US Writers Lauren Arrington 26 David Gelber

Holland Blind Twilight John Martin Robinson 27 Bernard O’Donoghue

Simple Annals: A Memoir of Early Childhood Roy Watkins 28 Suzi Feay

You are Beautiful and You are Alone: The Biography of Nico Jennifer Otter Bickerdike 30 Thomas W Hodgkinson

A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist Chris Paling 31 Rupert Christiansen

Arthur Sullivan: A Life of Divine Emollient Ian Bradley cinema 32 Peter Conrad

Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story Laura Fairrie (dir)

the state we’re in 34 Michael Burleigh

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History Alex von Tunzelmann 35 Michael Javen Fortner

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence & Black Rebellion Since the 1960s Elizabeth Hinton 37 Vicky Pryce

The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, & What We Can Do About It Mary Ann Sieghart 38 Ian Fraser

The Key Man: How the Global Elite was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale Simon Clark & Will Louch notebook 40 Carole Angier Writing W G Sebald’s biography general 42 Patricia Fara

About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks David Rooney 43 Tim Hornyak

The New Breed: How to Think About Robots Kate Darling

44 Daisy Dunn

Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz & Horizon Magazine Will Loxley 45 Michael Smith

Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them Tom Gatti (ed) 46 Nigel Andrew

The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides Adam Nicolson 47 Simon Heffer

Bretons and Britons: The Fight for Identity Barry Cunliffe 48 Malcolm Murfett

Why War? Christopher Coker fiction 50 Anthony Cummins

Batlava Lake Adam Mars-Jones 51 Paul Bailey

Nostalgia Mircea Cărtărescu 52 Laurel Berger

At Night All Blood is Black David Diop 53 David Isaacs

The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen 54 David Annand

Panenka Rónán Hession 55 Michael Eaude

Yesterday Juan Emar 56 Laura Hackett

Interviews with an Ape Felice Fallon fiction in brief 57 Nightbitch Rachel Yoder • Three Rooms Jo Hamya •

Hummingbird Salamander Jeff VanderMeer • The Coward Jarred McGinnis crime 58 Natasha Cooper silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu on Nedim Türfent & Osman Kavala bookends 64 Angus Gowland on The Anatomy of Melancholy competition 23 Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a new monthly competition

59 LR Bookshop 39 Letters 12 Crossword july 2021 | Literary Review 3

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