Literary Review February 2020

FEBRUARY 2020, ISSUE 483 Ian Fraser on financial sabotage * Richard Davenport-Hines on the letters of Robert Lowell & Elizabeth Hardwick * Sophie Duncan on why women read fiction * Peter Parker on East India Company painting  * Michael Burleigh on Kremlin killings in London * Joan Smith on difficult women * Lucy Lethbridge on Deborah Orr's memoir * Ian Black on Palestine's plight * Stephen Bates on a prisoner's diary * Sumit-Paul Choudhury on quantum quackery * Margaret Gilmore on designing babies * Jerry White on postwar anti-fascists * Norma Clarke on the woman who gave birth to rabbits * Sarah Ditum on Jenny Offill * James Purdon on Eimear McBride *  and much, much more…