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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.
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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.
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The US-China confrontation; beliefs vs facts; Tennyson, science and catastrophe; Iris Murdoch’s poetry; Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein; a history of shamanism – and much more.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The US-China confrontation; beliefs vs facts; Tennyson, science and catastrophe; Iris Murdoch’s poetry; Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein; a history of shamanism – and much more.
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The aristocracy today; Sally Mann’s creative process; the majesty of László Krasznahorkai; the charge against Chaucer; how grey became cool; small press struggles – and much more.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The aristocracy today; Sally Mann’s creative process; the majesty of László Krasznahorkai; the charge against Chaucer; how grey became cool; small press struggles – and much more.
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Sylvia Plath’s Ariel at sixty; Mossad’s European helpers; the wisdom of Bertie Wooster; Thomas Pynchon returns; a case against progress – and much more.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sylvia Plath’s Ariel at sixty; Mossad’s European helpers; the wisdom of Bertie Wooster; Thomas Pynchon returns; a case against progress – and much more.
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Where do you seek refuge? 'Water, loved ones, literature, history, deep time.'
Twenty Questions with Maggie Nelson
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Twenty Questions with Maggie Nelson
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October 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Where do you seek refuge? 'Water, loved ones, literature, history, deep time.'
Twenty Questions with Maggie Nelson
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Twenty Questions with Maggie Nelson
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September 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The dark side of the Durrells; Oscar Wilde’s conversion; making and describing great wine; Europe’s last pagans; good teachers; second mentions – and much more.
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August 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The dark side of the Durrells; Oscar Wilde’s conversion; making and describing great wine; Europe’s last pagans; good teachers; second mentions – and much more.
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Britain’s struggle to stay top; comic books for intellectuals; Gary Shteyngart’s sentimentalism; saints and mystics; battles over books – and much more.
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August 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Britain’s struggle to stay top; comic books for intellectuals; Gary Shteyngart’s sentimentalism; saints and mystics; battles over books – and much more.
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A year without reading; escaping the procrastination trap; eating insects; Dickens on stage and screen; how Horace prospered – and much more.
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July 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A year without reading; escaping the procrastination trap; eating insects; Dickens on stage and screen; how Horace prospered – and much more.
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Congratulations to Jeff Young, winner of this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize for his highly original and exhilaratingly written memoir ‘Wild Twin’, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Congratulations to Jeff Young, winner of this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize for his highly original and exhilaratingly written memoir ‘Wild Twin’, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
National security; Henry James returns to the US; a pioneer of out and proud; Homer for today; Heyer vs Austen – and much more.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
National security; Henry James returns to the US; a pioneer of out and proud; Homer for today; Heyer vs Austen – and much more.
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Gatsby at 100; Big Tech is watching; a day in Orwell’s life; decolonizing museums; a new manuscript by John Locke – and much more.
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July 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Gatsby at 100; Big Tech is watching; a day in Orwell’s life; decolonizing museums; a new manuscript by John Locke – and much more.
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An age of misgovernment; the novel of ideas; Chaucer’s ambitions for English; reconsidering Brigid Brophy; Samuel Beckett’s resourcefulness – and much more.
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July 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
An age of misgovernment; the novel of ideas; Chaucer’s ambitions for English; reconsidering Brigid Brophy; Samuel Beckett’s resourcefulness – and much more.
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An age of misgovernment; the novel of ideas; Chaucer’s ambitions for English; reconsidering Brigid Brophy; Samuel Beckett’s resourcefulness – and much more
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July 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
An age of misgovernment; the novel of ideas; Chaucer’s ambitions for English; reconsidering Brigid Brophy; Samuel Beckett’s resourcefulness – and much more
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A door-stopping biography of Mark Twain; Zbigniew Brzezinski’s legacy; the rise and fall of the tattoo; dinner-party novels; coffee and books – and much more.
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June 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A door-stopping biography of Mark Twain; Zbigniew Brzezinski’s legacy; the rise and fall of the tattoo; dinner-party novels; coffee and books – and much more.
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Summer Books 2025; the mental illness epidemic; teen-centric novels; mass protest in the modern era; a philosophy of eating – and much more
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June 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Summer Books 2025; the mental illness epidemic; teen-centric novels; mass protest in the modern era; a philosophy of eating – and much more
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Winning glory after D-Day; Americans and greatness; Wes Anderson’s wallpaper; a guide to magic; female friendships – and much more.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Winning glory after D-Day; Americans and greatness; Wes Anderson’s wallpaper; a guide to magic; female friendships – and much more.
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Gertrude Stein’s literary experiments; celebrity mystics; the compromises of G. W. Pabst; a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa; Toni Morrison’s books – and much more www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
June 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Gertrude Stein’s literary experiments; celebrity mystics; the compromises of G. W. Pabst; a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa; Toni Morrison’s books – and much more www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
Gertrude Stein’s literary experiments; celebrity mystics; the compromises of G. W. Pabst; a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa; Toni Morrison’s books – and much more.
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June 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Gertrude Stein’s literary experiments; celebrity mystics; the compromises of G. W. Pabst; a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa; Toni Morrison’s books – and much more.
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America’s crumbling financial empire; between life and death; asking the right questions; Ocean Vuong takes on the Big American Novel; a Magna Carta at Harvard – and much more www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
May 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
America’s crumbling financial empire; between life and death; asking the right questions; Ocean Vuong takes on the Big American Novel; a Magna Carta at Harvard – and much more www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
America’s crumbling financial empire; between life and death; asking the right questions; Ocean Vuong takes on the Big American Novel; a Magna Carta at Harvard – and much more.
May 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
America’s crumbling financial empire; between life and death; asking the right questions; Ocean Vuong takes on the Big American Novel; a Magna Carta at Harvard – and much more.
This week’s TLS, featuring Joyce and his biographer; Prigozhin’s mutiny; class solidarity vs identity politics; Indian and German thought; Kafka and the American state – and much more
May 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This week’s TLS, featuring Joyce and his biographer; Prigozhin’s mutiny; class solidarity vs identity politics; Indian and German thought; Kafka and the American state – and much more
The million details of Helen Garner; why we love Rome; the real Mrs Dalloway; speaking AI’s language; Philip Roth’s tricky president – and much more.
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May 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The million details of Helen Garner; why we love Rome; the real Mrs Dalloway; speaking AI’s language; Philip Roth’s tricky president – and much more.
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Princess Diana and the public; a new poem by Paul Muldoon; workplace inequalities; hungering for faith; Russia in poetry – and much more.
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May 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Princess Diana and the public; a new poem by Paul Muldoon; workplace inequalities; hungering for faith; Russia in poetry – and much more.
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William Blake’s art and imagination; arresting General Pinochet; AI and the West; Ira Gershwin’s songbook; Tokyo tourism – and much more.
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April 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
William Blake’s art and imagination; arresting General Pinochet; AI and the West; Ira Gershwin’s songbook; Tokyo tourism – and much more.
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