The Critic Magazine

29 June 2023

Summer reading is here with the July issue of The Critic. With 21 pages of the latest fiction and non-fiction book reviews, insight into whether literary agents are worth the money they make from their authors and special features on Ian McEwan, Henry Miller’s last love and why Paradise Lost has lost its lustre, The Critic satisfies the curiosity of the wide-ranging reader. Also in the July issue, William Cook admires Van Gogh’s final flourish, Sean Egan asks what happened to the once lucrative genre of film novelisation, Helen Joyce finds pornification everywhere, Sebastian Milbank defends censorship, Michael Prodger discerns how failing eyesight shaped Georgia O’Keeffe’s art, Boris Starling defends premier league football referees, Henry Hill finds a flaw in Rishi Sunak’s likely election strategy and Mahan Esfahani fondly recalls his late friends, the organist Simon Preston and countertenor, James Bowman. All this and The Critic’s customary survey of the latest hits and misses across theatre, cinema, television, radio, music, architecture, restaurants, fashion, sport and politics.