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4 days ago · In this week’s TLS. In this week’s TLS, A. N. Wilson diagnoses Hope, Pope Francis’s autobiography, as a “riposte to his virulent opponents within the Church”.But the book is “as …

Nov 15, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. Novels that make the Booker prize shortlist often get overlooked in the TLS’s Books of the Year feature.This year, however, Percival Everett’s …

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Since 1902, we have been publishing expert reviews and insightful, sometimes provocative essays by the best writers from around the world. We cover everything from The Tempest to …

Mar 1, 2024 · Thomas Hardy and women; Yaël Farber’s elegiac Shakespeare; Yiddish writing; Hannah Arendt for today; Canal Fiction revisited – and much more

Collection. Literature. Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath, Murakami, Jane Austen and James Baldwin, metaphysical poets and the Bloomsbury set, New Criticism and post-colonialism: in essays …

Nov 8, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. Contemplating his likely end, Vladimir Putin’s gadfly opponent Alexei Navalny joked that his memoir, Patriot (reviewed by Wendy Slater), was bound to be a …

Oct 25, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. In Polis, Ma argues that in the “classical” period celebrated by western poets and historians, the Greek cities reached their nadir, not their peak.Vicious class …

Mar 29, 2024 · The letters of Ray Bradbury; carving up the solar system; Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-the-nation novel; the limits of consent – and much more