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'[This show] bursts, like Nigeria itself, with creativity and genius.'
Barnaby Phillips: Radical visions of what modern art can be
Barnaby Phillips: Radical visions of what modern art can be
Bursting with genius
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November 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
'[This show] bursts, like Nigeria itself, with creativity and genius.'
Barnaby Phillips: Radical visions of what modern art can be
Barnaby Phillips: Radical visions of what modern art can be
'On leaving art school, Gilbert and George wandered the streets of London, “amazed” at all they saw. They still take daily walks around the East End.'
Matthew Bown: War-baby artists in the digital age
Matthew Bown: War-baby artists in the digital age
Nostalgia for nostalgia
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November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
'On leaving art school, Gilbert and George wandered the streets of London, “amazed” at all they saw. They still take daily walks around the East End.'
Matthew Bown: War-baby artists in the digital age
Matthew Bown: War-baby artists in the digital age
'The spy’s “tradecraft” never ceased to shape the approach of this former agent of both MI5 and MI6.'
Boyd Tonkin: Inside a writer’s workshop
Boyd Tonkin: Inside a writer’s workshop
Methods and materials
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November 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
'The spy’s “tradecraft” never ceased to shape the approach of this former agent of both MI5 and MI6.'
Boyd Tonkin: Inside a writer’s workshop
Boyd Tonkin: Inside a writer’s workshop
'Ignoring the lives upended by these executive actions, the court has concluded that any temporary interruption would cause irreparable harm to the president himself.'
Lawrence Douglas on the case against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Lawrence Douglas on the case against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Witness for the prosecution
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November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
'Ignoring the lives upended by these executive actions, the court has concluded that any temporary interruption would cause irreparable harm to the president himself.'
Lawrence Douglas on the case against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Lawrence Douglas on the case against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
'An enjoyably sly and bitchy account of how everybody let [Harris] down.'
Sarah Baxter: Why the Democrats lost to Donald Trump in 2024
Sarah Baxter: Why the Democrats lost to Donald Trump in 2024
Everybody’s fault but their own
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November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
'An enjoyably sly and bitchy account of how everybody let [Harris] down.'
Sarah Baxter: Why the Democrats lost to Donald Trump in 2024
Sarah Baxter: Why the Democrats lost to Donald Trump in 2024
'After the Covid shutdown, the number of BBC archivists was reduced to a skeleton crew. Expert staff who took early retirement were not replaced.'
J. E. Smyth: The BBC is restricting access to its archives
J. E. Smyth: The BBC is restricting access to its archives
Who controls the past
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November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
'After the Covid shutdown, the number of BBC archivists was reduced to a skeleton crew. Expert staff who took early retirement were not replaced.'
J. E. Smyth: The BBC is restricting access to its archives
J. E. Smyth: The BBC is restricting access to its archives
'Weil reminds us that real evil, unlike its scripted counterpart, is stupid and predictable.'
A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone: Simone Weil’s ethical life class
A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone: Simone Weil’s ethical life class
Touching the void
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November 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
'Weil reminds us that real evil, unlike its scripted counterpart, is stupid and predictable.'
A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone: Simone Weil’s ethical life class
A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone: Simone Weil’s ethical life class
Books of the Year; Seamus Heaney’s journey; AI novels by committee; why Kamala Harris lost; what modern art can be; Margaret Atwood looks back – and much more.
The new issue of the TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
The new issue of the TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Books of the Year; Seamus Heaney’s journey; AI novels by committee; why Kamala Harris lost; what modern art can be; Margaret Atwood looks back – and much more.
The new issue of the TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
The new issue of the TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
'Satire was the usual resort of those alarmed by signs of increasing anglicization in the country.'
Patricia Craig on a literary history of national guilt
Patricia Craig on a literary history of national guilt
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
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November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
'Satire was the usual resort of those alarmed by signs of increasing anglicization in the country.'
Patricia Craig on a literary history of national guilt
Patricia Craig on a literary history of national guilt
Books of the Year 2025: Our contributors choose their favourites
Books of the Year 2025
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November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Books of the Year 2025: Our contributors choose their favourites
'The growth of a fan base brought pressures as well as rewards, especially for someone as prone as Heaney to critical self-examination.'
Roy Foster: Charting Seamus Heaney’s Wordsworthian journey
Roy Foster: Charting Seamus Heaney’s Wordsworthian journey
Blazing graft
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November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
'The growth of a fan base brought pressures as well as rewards, especially for someone as prone as Heaney to critical self-examination.'
Roy Foster: Charting Seamus Heaney’s Wordsworthian journey
Roy Foster: Charting Seamus Heaney’s Wordsworthian journey
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"Slightly deaf, she leans in and out, and pivots to her fellow interviewees with ferocious energy, enthusiasm and, at times, disdain"
Delighted to have @louiserl.bsky.social on Gabrielle Wittkop in the new issue of @thetls.bsky.social
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Delighted to have @louiserl.bsky.social on Gabrielle Wittkop in the new issue of @thetls.bsky.social
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Necrophilia, poisoning and murder: a transgressive French novelist
We are on the set of Bouillon de Culture, a late-night cultural chat show hosted on French TV by the public intellectual Bernard Pivot, genial and
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November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Slightly deaf, she leans in and out, and pivots to her fellow interviewees with ferocious energy, enthusiasm and, at times, disdain"
Delighted to have @louiserl.bsky.social on Gabrielle Wittkop in the new issue of @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/literature/l...
Delighted to have @louiserl.bsky.social on Gabrielle Wittkop in the new issue of @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/literature/l...
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It’s a great honour for ‘Silence of the Gods’ to be selected as one of @thetls.bsky.social's Books of the Year (and first in the list!) – thank you to David Abulafia for his generous comments 📚 www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It’s a great honour for ‘Silence of the Gods’ to be selected as one of @thetls.bsky.social's Books of the Year (and first in the list!) – thank you to David Abulafia for his generous comments 📚 www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Do your ideas form themselves in your head or on the page? ‘In my head. Everything works itself out in my head except the voice. I have to start writing before the voice makes itself known.’
Twenty Questions with Derek Owusu
Twenty Questions with Derek Owusu
Twenty Questions with Derek Owusu
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November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Do your ideas form themselves in your head or on the page? ‘In my head. Everything works itself out in my head except the voice. I have to start writing before the voice makes itself known.’
Twenty Questions with Derek Owusu
Twenty Questions with Derek Owusu
Martin Beagles on a clear-sighted account of tragedy
Act of witness
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November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Martin Beagles on a clear-sighted account of tragedy
'A founding document designed to be amended has turned into the very thing that its framers presumably hoped to avoid.'
Lawrence Douglas on the US Constitution as a straitjacket
Lawrence Douglas on the US Constitution as a straitjacket
Tyranny of the dead
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November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
'A founding document designed to be amended has turned into the very thing that its framers presumably hoped to avoid.'
Lawrence Douglas on the US Constitution as a straitjacket
Lawrence Douglas on the US Constitution as a straitjacket
'One moment, they’re a rippling caribou herd, spines undulating as they process horizontally across the stage on all fours.'
Emily May: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney tackle the ecological crisis
Emily May: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney tackle the ecological crisis
They’ve got a little List
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November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
'One moment, they’re a rippling caribou herd, spines undulating as they process horizontally across the stage on all fours.'
Emily May: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney tackle the ecological crisis
Emily May: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney tackle the ecological crisis
Catherine Taylor: A ghostwriter's assignment in a ghostly house
Wistful haunting
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November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Catherine Taylor: A ghostwriter's assignment in a ghostly house
'Mid-career, David Szalay has completely overhauled his prose style.'
Claire Lowdon on Flesh, winner of the Booker Prize 2025 www.the-tls.com/literature/...
Claire Lowdon on Flesh, winner of the Booker Prize 2025 www.the-tls.com/literature/...
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
'Mid-career, David Szalay has completely overhauled his prose style.'
Claire Lowdon on Flesh, winner of the Booker Prize 2025 www.the-tls.com/literature/...
Claire Lowdon on Flesh, winner of the Booker Prize 2025 www.the-tls.com/literature/...
Miranda France: Binding books and community in twentieth century Paris
A safe house for surrealism
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November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Miranda France: Binding books and community in twentieth century Paris
'Did any of Kojève’s famous fellow émigrés share his enthusiasm for Stalin?'
Caryl Emerson on a Parisian intellectual star, maker of Europe, Stalinist
Caryl Emerson on a Parisian intellectual star, maker of Europe, Stalinist
The opportunistic philosopher
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November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
'Did any of Kojève’s famous fellow émigrés share his enthusiasm for Stalin?'
Caryl Emerson on a Parisian intellectual star, maker of Europe, Stalinist
Caryl Emerson on a Parisian intellectual star, maker of Europe, Stalinist
Deborah Campbell on the transformation of a medical case into literature
Make a sentence work
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November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Deborah Campbell on the transformation of a medical case into literature
Lily Isaacs: An epiphany sparked by washing up
Gen Z’s Lady Macbeth
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November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Lily Isaacs: An epiphany sparked by washing up
‘You can’t step into the same river twice? You say so? We can’t step into the thing at all, not until the water level goes down again’
Brian Morton on the rewards of isolation
Brian Morton on the rewards of isolation
Kintyre
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November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
‘You can’t step into the same river twice? You say so? We can’t step into the thing at all, not until the water level goes down again’
Brian Morton on the rewards of isolation
Brian Morton on the rewards of isolation
M. Syd Rosen: A veritable rogues’ gallery of gurus
Cheap stage magic
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November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
M. Syd Rosen: A veritable rogues’ gallery of gurus