Literary Review - Feb 2024

Stuart Jeffries on Hannah Arendt * Norma Clarke on Thomas Hardy * Rosemary Ashton on death & the Victorians * Richard V Reeves on equality * Jeremy Harte on the last peasants * Charles Foster on animal communication * Megan Vaughan on Fanon * Jason Goodwin on Istanbul * Donald Rayfield on the Russian Civil War * Kathryn Hughes on brat cats * Tim Hornyak on Japanese gangsters * James Le Fanu on gene therapy * Jude Cook on Howard Jacobson * Richard Canning on Michael Cunningham * Michael Taylor on slavery * Piers Brendon on Edwardian entertainment * Craig Clunas on Orientalism * Cal Flyn on homelessness * Michael White on political diaries * H Kumarasingham on Labour's first government * Nicholas Clee on publishing then & now * and much, much more