Literary Review

Out now! Literary Review's November issue, featuring

@djtaylorwriter on Saki
Joanna Kavenna on Camus and Casares
@darwent_charles on Krasner and Pollock
Michele Pridmore-Brown on having children
@bjkingape on animals' inner lives

and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk

For decades, Lee Krasner was cast as the victim of a patriarchy, while Jackson Pollock was flattened into a painterly cowboy in an American art that denied its European debts.

@darwent_charles considers what changes when the two are seen as a pair.

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Twenty-six men were raised by Napoleon to the rank of marshal of France; only six fought with him at Waterloo.

Jonathan Boff asks whether the marshals’ eventual betrayal was really disloyalty, or simply self-preservation learned at Napoleon's own school.

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Small, useless and endlessly loved, lap dogs have stood for frivolous femininity and the witch’s familiar hidden in her lap.

Diane Purkiss wonders what our relationships to these animals say about us.

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Roy Cohn prosecuted the Rosenbergs, served as Joseph McCarthy’s chief attaché and later counting Donald Trump, mafia dons and Studio 54 regulars among legal clients.

@joshglancy considers what, if anything, Cohn actually believed in.

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