Articles of Note

The case of Gottfried Benn. His poetry was shocking and lurid, his politics a disgrace ? and his style one of literature's great inventions... more »

New Books

The 20th century ? world wars, gulags, famine, genocide ? was the safest there has ever been. To what did we owe our unprecedented safety? War... more »

Essays & Opinions

The New Review: Cover art by Roy Lichtenstein, fiction by Ian McEwan, essays by Isaiah Berlin, Philip Larkin, A.J.P. Taylor, Clive James. Best literary magazine of the past 50 years?... more »