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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
W. J. Davies on abandoning one life to write another
Impostor syndrome
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November 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
W. J. Davies on abandoning one life to write another
'Angelino's method quietly resists the idea that writing needs to be a constant activity.'
Inés Arteta on violent tales of a rural collective
Inés Arteta on violent tales of a rural collective
Virtues of omission
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November 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
'Angelino's method quietly resists the idea that writing needs to be a constant activity.'
Inés Arteta on violent tales of a rural collective
Inés Arteta on violent tales of a rural collective
Zuzana Slobodová on a collection that strays between ‘now’ and ‘as it used to be’
Perpetual winter
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November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Zuzana Slobodová on a collection that strays between ‘now’ and ‘as it used to be’
E. K. Myerson: How the asbestos industry contaminated everything
A crocidolite vein
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November 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
E. K. Myerson: How the asbestos industry contaminated everything
'Shaw, a biologist who studies antibiotic resistance, draws important parallels between antibiotics and fossil fuels.'
Jennie Erin Smith on the arms race between antibiotics and bacteria
Jennie Erin Smith on the arms race between antibiotics and bacteria
The arms race between antibiotics and bacteria
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November 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
'Shaw, a biologist who studies antibiotic resistance, draws important parallels between antibiotics and fossil fuels.'
Jennie Erin Smith on the arms race between antibiotics and bacteria
Jennie Erin Smith on the arms race between antibiotics and bacteria
'Is it good for the soul, I wonder, to hang on to old junk because you continue to cultivate the illusion of literary glory?'
Tim Parks on the lucrative afterlife of literary papers
Tim Parks on the lucrative afterlife of literary papers
The lucrative afterlife of literary papers
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November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
'Is it good for the soul, I wonder, to hang on to old junk because you continue to cultivate the illusion of literary glory?'
Tim Parks on the lucrative afterlife of literary papers
Tim Parks on the lucrative afterlife of literary papers
Collecting the ‘Long Sixties’, Nemo returns, Veronica Forrest-Thomson at Cambridge
Starr man
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November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Collecting the ‘Long Sixties’, Nemo returns, Veronica Forrest-Thomson at Cambridge
'There were failed experiments in monotheism, and promising detours to henotheism ... before the God of the Israelites wiped out the competition.'
Johanna Hanink: What the West owes to the ancient world
Johanna Hanink: What the West owes to the ancient world
What the West owes to the ancient world
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November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
'There were failed experiments in monotheism, and promising detours to henotheism ... before the God of the Israelites wiped out the competition.'
Johanna Hanink: What the West owes to the ancient world
Johanna Hanink: What the West owes to the ancient world
'About a fifth of the Amazon has been lost since 1975 to the expansion of mines, illegal lumbering, dams and other projects of dubious utility to anyone except moneyed elites.'
Roger Atwood on a tragic eyewitness to the devastation of Amazonia
Roger Atwood on a tragic eyewitness to the devastation of Amazonia
A tragic eyewitness to the devastation of Amazonia
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November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
'About a fifth of the Amazon has been lost since 1975 to the expansion of mines, illegal lumbering, dams and other projects of dubious utility to anyone except moneyed elites.'
Roger Atwood on a tragic eyewitness to the devastation of Amazonia
Roger Atwood on a tragic eyewitness to the devastation of Amazonia
Do your ideas form themselves in your head or on the page? ‘On the page. I’ve never trusted people who think directly in words.’
Twenty Questions with Graham Harman
Twenty Questions with Graham Harman
Twenty Questions with Graham Harman
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November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Do your ideas form themselves in your head or on the page? ‘On the page. I’ve never trusted people who think directly in words.’
Twenty Questions with Graham Harman
Twenty Questions with Graham Harman
'Here they come / thirst-struck, grimy from the desert / their breaths burning like mirages / mouths dry and coated in dust ...'
Silent Cry by Nadia Anjuman, translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
Silent Cry by Nadia Anjuman, translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
Silent Cry
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November 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
'Here they come / thirst-struck, grimy from the desert / their breaths burning like mirages / mouths dry and coated in dust ...'
Silent Cry by Nadia Anjuman, translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
Silent Cry by Nadia Anjuman, translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
'That beauty is a privileged way in which gods and goddesses are revealed to and compared to humans, mortals being both like yet ineluctably unlike the immortals.'
Paul Cartledge on classical Greek and modern ideas of beauty
Paul Cartledge on classical Greek and modern ideas of beauty
Classical Greek and modern ideas of beauty
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November 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
'That beauty is a privileged way in which gods and goddesses are revealed to and compared to humans, mortals being both like yet ineluctably unlike the immortals.'
Paul Cartledge on classical Greek and modern ideas of beauty
Paul Cartledge on classical Greek and modern ideas of beauty
“All four women are middle-class, but their financial security is threatened by motherhood.”
Terri Apter on four views of modern maternity
Terri Apter on four views of modern maternity
Four views of modern maternity
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November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“All four women are middle-class, but their financial security is threatened by motherhood.”
Terri Apter on four views of modern maternity
Terri Apter on four views of modern maternity
'The portraitist paints the sitter with his palette: Cercas likes the world he inhabits – lay-minded, sexually unforbidding, democratic, unheeding of eternity.'
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
A Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
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November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
'The portraitist paints the sitter with his palette: Cercas likes the world he inhabits – lay-minded, sexually unforbidding, democratic, unheeding of eternity.'
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
'With our first words, we begin to gain control over our lives – or we are installed in an illusion of control.'
Lynne Murphy on baby talk and deathbed speech
Lynne Murphy on baby talk and deathbed speech
Baby talk and deathbed speech
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November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
'With our first words, we begin to gain control over our lives – or we are installed in an illusion of control.'
Lynne Murphy on baby talk and deathbed speech
Lynne Murphy on baby talk and deathbed speech
'Shamanism is enjoying a double boom in the modern world. One aspect of this is a revival of practices associated with the word by indigenous peoples after postcolonial emancipation.
Ronald Hutton on Shamanism across many cultures
Ronald Hutton on Shamanism across many cultures
Shamanism across many cultures
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November 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
'Shamanism is enjoying a double boom in the modern world. One aspect of this is a revival of practices associated with the word by indigenous peoples after postcolonial emancipation.
Ronald Hutton on Shamanism across many cultures
Ronald Hutton on Shamanism across many cultures
'The Arabic numerals found on the west front sculpture of Wells Cathedral long before their usage became common in the British Isles are also curious.'
Gabriel Byng: Who built Europe’s cathedrals?
Gabriel Byng: Who built Europe’s cathedrals?
Who built Europe’s cathedrals?
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November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
'The Arabic numerals found on the west front sculpture of Wells Cathedral long before their usage became common in the British Isles are also curious.'
Gabriel Byng: Who built Europe’s cathedrals?
Gabriel Byng: Who built Europe’s cathedrals?