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contents august 2021 • issue 499 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 | august 2021 2 diary 1 Frances Wilson art 6 Charles Darwent The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art & Hitler’s First Mass-Murder Programme Charlie English 8 Norma Clarke This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life & Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century Rebecca Birrell 9 Georgina Adam Lost Art: The Art Loss Register Casebook Anja Shortland 10 Adrian Tinniswood The World According to Colour: A Cultural History James Fox history 12 Anna Keay The Making of Oliver Cromwell Ronald Hutton 14 Bijan Omrani History of the Caucasus: Volume One – At the Crossroads of Empires Christoph Baumer 15 Mathew Lyons Antwerp: The Glory Years Michael Pye 17 Mary Kenny The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, & the Murders That Stunned an Empire Julie Kavanagh 18 Luke Daly-Groves Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World Giles Milton 19 Richard Vinen War in the Mountains: Peasant Society & Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918–1958 Neil MacMaster grand designs 20 Peter Davidson Raised from the Ruins: Monastic Houses after the Dissolution Jane Whitaker 22 Jane Ridley Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient Fatima Manji literary lives 23 Alberto Manguel Pessoa: An Experimental Life Richard Zenith 25 Sarah Dunant The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci & the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance Ross King
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contents 26 Heather Clark The Letters of Shirley Jackson Laurence Jackson Hyman (ed) cinema 28 Peter Conrad Hemingway Ken Burns & Lynn Novick (dir) foreign parts 30 David Gelber Children of the Night: The Strange & Epic Story of Modern Romania Paul Kenyon 31 Abhimanyu Arni To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism Debasish Roy Chowdhury & John Keane 33 Felipe Fernández-Armesto Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains Lucas Bessire memoirs 34 Timothy W Ryback The Suitcase Frances Stonor Saunders 35 David Gilmour Home in the World: A Memoir Amartya Sen life on earth 36 Joanna Kavenna 12 Bytes: How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next Jeanette Winterson 37 Andrew Crumey Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive Carl Zimmer 38 Nigel Andrew Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse Dave Goulson general 39 Michael Burleigh Democracy Rules Jan-Werner Müller 40 Robert Bickers The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 41 Fergus Butler-Gallie Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter John McWhorter 42 Tim Hornyak Test Gods: Tragedy & Triumph in the New Space Race Nicholas Schmidle 43 Benjamin Riley Pedro and Ricky Come Again Jonathan Meades 44 Gulliver Ralston The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces Susan Tomes 45 Rupert Christiansen Clement Crisp Reviews Gerald Dowler (ed) notebook 46 Donald Rayfield Disinterring Anton Chekhov poetry 48 William Wootten Men Who Feed Pigeons Selima Hill • Rotten Days in Late Summer Ralf Webb • A Blood Condition Kayo Chingonyi fiction 50 Daisy Dunn The Women of Troy Pat Barker 51 Tom Williams Monument Maker David Keenan 52 Laurel Berger The Country of Others Leïla Slimani 53 Alan Taylor Rose Nicolson Andrew Greig 54 Miranda France Secrets of Happiness Joan Silber 55 Soumya Bhattacharya Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor 56 Amanda Craig Cut Out Michèle Roberts 56 Michael Eaude Barcelona Dreaming Rupert Thomson 57 Melissa J Gismondi Breathe Joyce Carol Oates fiction in brief 58 The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak • The Woodcock Richard Smyth • The Divorce César Aira • Mrs Caliban Rachel Ingalls silenced voices 59 Lucy Popescu Lobsang Lhundup crime 60 Natasha Cooper bookends 64 Martin Salisbury Neo-romantic book making competition 24 Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a monthly challenge 61 LR Bookshop 29 Letters 13 Crossword august 2021 | Literary Review 3

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contents august 2021 • issue 499

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 | august 2021 2

diary 1 Frances Wilson art 6 Charles Darwent

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art & Hitler’s First Mass-Murder Programme Charlie English 8 Norma Clarke

This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life & Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century Rebecca Birrell 9 Georgina Adam

Lost Art: The Art Loss Register Casebook Anja Shortland 10 Adrian Tinniswood

The World According to Colour: A Cultural History James Fox history 12 Anna Keay

The Making of Oliver Cromwell Ronald Hutton 14 Bijan Omrani

History of the Caucasus: Volume One – At the Crossroads of Empires Christoph Baumer 15 Mathew Lyons

Antwerp: The Glory Years Michael Pye 17 Mary Kenny

The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, & the Murders That Stunned an Empire Julie Kavanagh 18 Luke Daly-Groves

Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World Giles Milton 19 Richard Vinen

War in the Mountains: Peasant Society & Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918–1958 Neil MacMaster grand designs 20 Peter Davidson

Raised from the Ruins: Monastic Houses after the Dissolution Jane Whitaker 22 Jane Ridley

Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient Fatima Manji literary lives 23 Alberto Manguel

Pessoa: An Experimental Life Richard Zenith 25 Sarah Dunant

The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci & the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance Ross King

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