The British imagination; Trump’s whisperers; the orphan behind Oliver Twist; birds in art; Ben Lerner returns; nocturnal beauty – and much more. Out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
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The struggle between good and evil in William Golding’s fiction www.the-tls.com/lives/lette...
Darkness visible
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William Golding’s beast within; the many lives of W. H. Auden; Palantir spreads; the spirit of the Risorgimento; Ishiguro on film; experiencing consciousness – and much more. Out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
The cult of Holbein; the uncertain future of reading; dreaming of Cairo; how the Bible came to be; an Orwellian dilemma – and much more. The new TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
Theories of time; how Byzantium survived; Tolkien’s hobbit craft; lessons from Brexit; mastery of microbes; Faber’s full stops – and much more. Out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
Games as a way of life; how Franco tried to cheat history; George Saunders’s new ghost story; Korean poets finding freedom; Dickensian women – and much more. The new issue of the TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
‘The trouble with bespoke morality is that it can be very tailored indeed.’ Kant and external law
Kant and external law
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Revealed: newly discovered photographs of Baudelaire’s muse
Portraits of the ‘Black Venus’
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The state of British poetry; Baudelaire’s ‘Black Venus’ revealed; populations in crisis; a history of shipwrecks; Kant and external law – and much more. The new TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
My @thetls.bsky.social review of Anthony Gottlieb’s new biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein (behind a paywall) www.the-tls.com/philosophy/h...
His critique of pure raisin
Most biographies and memoirs of Ludwig Wittgenstein show, rather than say, that he could be a jerk. Some writers excuse his behaviour because he was so clearly a genius, others because he had a specia...
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Over the moon to have Deborah Levy making her début writing in @thetls.bsky.social with a rereading of Eugène Ionesco in the issue out now. A great way to end the year. See you in 2026 www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
The bald truth
When I was nineteen, I met a man who seemed very old to me, in a cafe in Trastevere, Rome. He asked me what I did in life. I was a theatre student and grandly told him I was a playwright. I had at tha...
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Absent or present? Gothic or uncanny? Fantastic or fantastique? My @thetls.bsky.social review of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
Between the pages
Collections of short stories are sometimes made from previously published material, offering few surprises beyond the sequencing of the pieces. Paris
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A great way to kick off this year's French literature coverage in the @thetls.bsky.social: Marie Darrieussecq on the latest book by Emmanuel Carrère in the latest issue. www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
Mother was always right
It seems that Emmanuel Carrère is now thought to be France’s “greatest living writer”. France has always needed a greatest writer, and even if there are
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How does distraction inform your writing? ‘I don’t really distinguish between distraction and everyday life.’ Twenty Questions with Anne Serre
Twenty Questions with Anne Serre
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What is the worst job you ever had? ‘Painting the underside of an asbestos roof in a heatwave while standing on a plank with no guard rails.’ Twenty Questions with Michael Rosen
Twenty Questions with Michael Rosen
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