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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.

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February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Why fertility rates are collapsing around the world
Diminishing returns
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February 3, 2026 at 12:04 PM
An anthology of sonnets past and present
Chaos in fourteen lines
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February 3, 2026 at 12:27 AM
What the reparations debate misses
Beyond a balance sheet
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February 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
The fraught relationship between taxation and democracy
People’s budget
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February 2, 2026 at 12:22 AM
The Arctic as a battleground for the superpowers
Warming up for a fight
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February 1, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Twenty Questions with Katherine Rundell
Twenty Questions with Katherine Rundell
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February 1, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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
Jessica Mitford: English aristocrat to American activist
A madcap time
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January 30, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Inheriting Norman Lewis’s library
Inheriting Norman Lewis’s library
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January 29, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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
Bar-room politics and rising resentment in 1930s Berlin
The gutter life
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January 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
The forward march of British poetry
Anon and on
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January 28, 2026 at 6:39 AM
‘The trouble with bespoke morality is that it can be very tailored indeed.’

Kant and external law
Kant and external law
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January 27, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Ghosts and protest in Ali Smith’s latest jeu d’esprit
Horseplay
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January 27, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Revealed: newly discovered photographs of Baudelaire’s muse
Portraits of the ‘Black Venus’
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January 26, 2026 at 6:41 PM
The thrill of marine archaeology
The thrill of marine archaeology
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January 26, 2026 at 3:38 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.

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January 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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
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January 8, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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
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
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January 6, 2026 at 12:38 PM