November Literary Review newsletter

…in lieu of the long overdue local catch-up. On the upside, #NMpoets, I've been laboring in the social media vineyards - Groves of Academe Division -  on behalf of its adjunct labor force, which includes a number of NM poets teaching in NM universities and community colleges. See for yourself: check out New Faculty Majority on Facebook. I'll try to get to sharing local NM poetry news and announcements on Facebook today but should also warn you that I set aside Novembers for NaNoWriMo so may be short on time for both groups.

Your monthly update on Literary Review. For people who devour books. View in your browser Literary Review presents some of the highlights from the recent November issue... 'What a set! What a world!' John Polidori died by his own hand a disappointed man, seeing his novella, The Vampyre, published under the name of his friend Lord Byron. Seamus Perry reveals yet more love and anguish in the poet's coterie.   Snakes in the Jungle Did Ciro Bustos betray Che Guevara? John Sweeney reads Bustos's defence and finds in his memoir 'real passion about what it was to be a child of the revolution in South America'.   Bomb Voyage Matthew Green praises a nuclear travelogue that spans the uranium mines of the Congo, the deserts of New Mexico and the Fukushima disaster.   Housewives & Heroines Anne Sebba discovers that – in archaeology, architecture, the law and numerous other fields – women of the 1950s escaped the home to flourish in their professional lives.   In Bed with François Was Mitterrand a resister or collaborator? Left-wing or right-wing? A man of principle or an operator? Robert Gildea peels back the mask.   Looking for Darwish Maya Jaggi reports from Jerusalem and meets the poetic heirs of Mahmoud Darwish, hearing of the difficulties Palestinian writers have in making their voices heard.   A Late Flowering Married to a drunk, disgraced barrister, left homeless when her houseboat sunk, Penelope Fitzgerald's path to literary acclaim did not run smooth. Mark Bostridge weighs up her legacy   Whither Whiteblade? Oswald of Northumbria became one of the first English martyrs when slain by the pagan King Penda of Mercia in 642. Philip Parker throws light on a religious pioneer of the dark ages.   FICTION Michael Arditti on David Leavitt's urbane and satisfying The Two Hotel Francforts Simon Hammond on three Irish debuts, including Eimear McBride's stunning A Girl is a Half-formed Thing   ALL THIS AND MUCH MORE INSIDE THIS ISSUE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED LITERARY MAGAZINE   In our December/January double issue: Michael Burleigh on Hezbollah * Andrea Stuart on coolies * John Banville on Simenon * Philip Hensher on Morrissey * Bernard Porter on Gandhi * Alex Goodall on nuclear errors * Sam Leith on cats * Lesley Downer on Japanese erotic art * John Gray on Walter Benjamin * Allan Massie on the Greek Gods * Leanda de Lisle on the myth of Anne Boleyn * James Stourton on Bernard Berenson * Daniel Pick on the correspondence of Sigmund and Anna Freud * Jonathan Keates on Baron Corvo * John Walsh on Ava Gardner * Bill Emmott on Japan * and much, much more…  SUBSCRIBE NOW – Go to www.literaryreview.co.uk or call the Subscriptions Hotline on 0208 683 7151   Alternatively, subscribe to the digital version at Exact Editions Also in this issue: Eric Ormsby on the legends of Muhammad Linda Porter on Elizabeth of York, Tudor Godmother Giles Milton boards ship with an Elizabethan explorer   David Gilmour on the birth of Bangladesh Miranda Seymour sails down the Danube Kevin Jackson chills out with the Beats   Henrietta Garnett on growing old gracefully Andrew Brown on Dawkins's delusions   Gulliver Ralston listens to John Eliot Gardiner's rendition of Bach Charles Shaar Murray strums along to Johnny Cash   Ian Sansom goes catching in the rye Jonathan Mirsky cracks out the Feinstein jokes Adrian Tinniswood walks the plank Jonathan Meades on an architectural history of England Copyright © 2013 Literary Review Quarto Ltd, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: editorial@literaryreview.co.uk