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Mario Vargas Llosa has died at the age of 89. In a recent issue of the London Review<\/em>, Tony Wood<\/a> wrote about the Peruvian novelist\u2019s trip to Moscow in 1968, when his disenchantment with socialism began (or so he later claimed). Further back in the LRB<\/em> archive you can read Rachel Nolan on Harsh Times<\/em><\/a>, Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn on The Dream of the Celt,<\/em><\/a> Michael Wood on The Feast of the Goat<\/em><\/a>, Lorna Scott Fox on The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto<\/em><\/a>, Philip Horne on The Perpetual Orgy<\/em>, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service <\/em><\/a>, The War of the End of the World<\/em><\/a> and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter<\/a>,<\/em> John Sturrock on The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta<\/em><\/a>, and Ronan Bennett on Vargas Llosa\u2019s political ambitions (and the Shining Path)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n