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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 new issue of the TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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 new issue of the TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
Why fertility rates are collapsing around the world
Diminishing returns
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February 3, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Why fertility rates are collapsing around the world
An anthology of sonnets past and present
Chaos in fourteen lines
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February 3, 2026 at 12:27 AM
An anthology of sonnets past and present
What the reparations debate misses
Beyond a balance sheet
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February 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
What the reparations debate misses
The fraught relationship between taxation and democracy
People’s budget
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February 2, 2026 at 12:22 AM
The fraught relationship between taxation and democracy
The Arctic as a battleground for the superpowers
Warming up for a fight
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February 1, 2026 at 12:05 PM
The Arctic as a battleground for the superpowers
Twenty Questions with Katherine Rundell
Twenty Questions with Katherine Rundell
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February 1, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Twenty Questions with Katherine Rundell
A history of childbirth and a defence of the C-section
First class delivery?
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January 30, 2026 at 9:08 PM
A history of childbirth and a defence of the C-section
Jessica Mitford: English aristocrat to American activist
A madcap time
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January 30, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Jessica Mitford: English aristocrat to American activist
Inheriting Norman Lewis’s library
Inheriting Norman Lewis’s library
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January 29, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Inheriting Norman Lewis’s library
Vivid life in an iconic Greek tomb painting
Vivid life in an iconic Greek tomb painting
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January 29, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Vivid life in an iconic Greek tomb painting
Bar-room politics and rising resentment in 1930s Berlin
The gutter life
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January 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Bar-room politics and rising resentment in 1930s Berlin
The forward march of British poetry
Anon and on
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January 28, 2026 at 6:39 AM
The forward march of British poetry
‘The trouble with bespoke morality is that it can be very tailored indeed.’
Kant and external law
Kant and external law
Kant and external law
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January 27, 2026 at 6:36 PM
‘The trouble with bespoke morality is that it can be very tailored indeed.’
Kant and external law
Kant and external law
Ghosts and protest in Ali Smith’s latest jeu d’esprit
Horseplay
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January 27, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Ghosts and protest in Ali Smith’s latest jeu d’esprit
Revealed: newly discovered photographs of Baudelaire’s muse
Portraits of the ‘Black Venus’
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January 26, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Revealed: newly discovered photographs of Baudelaire’s muse
The thrill of marine archaeology
The thrill of marine archaeology
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January 26, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The thrill of marine archaeology
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...
The new TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
January 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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...
The new TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
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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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December 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My @thetls.bsky.social review of Anthony Gottlieb’s new biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein (behind a paywall) www.the-tls.com/philosophy/h...
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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
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A great way to end the year. See you in 2026
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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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December 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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...
A great way to end the year. See you in 2026
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
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Absent or present? Gothic or uncanny? Fantastic or fantastique?
My @thetls.bsky.social review of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle
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My @thetls.bsky.social review of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle
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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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January 1, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Absent or present? Gothic or uncanny? Fantastic or fantastique?
My @thetls.bsky.social review of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle
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My @thetls.bsky.social review of Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle
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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.
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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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January 7, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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.
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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
Twenty Questions with Anne Serre
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January 8, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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
How the young Dylan Thomas repeatedly stole from others
‘One day, they’ll find me out’
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January 7, 2026 at 12:37 PM
How the young Dylan Thomas repeatedly stole from others
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
Twenty Questions with Michael Rosen
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January 6, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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