Times Literary Supplement
All the kingdoms
Towards the end of Tessa Hadley’s engaging new nov...
Pedalo with Satan
Is contemporary poetry uniquely obsessed with iden...
A star is torn
In a market crowded with full-length biographies o...
What we want from her books
“How should one read a book?” Virginia Woolf asked...
Love and death
When Annie Ernaux started sleeping with the photog...
Precarious eminence
Joan Smith’s history of Roman imperial women in th...
Ignorant armies
As early as 1969, The Death of the Past was the ti...
Strange waters
Some novels, particularly those of a supernatural ...
Captive markets
In 1854 the fortunes of North Brookfield, Massachu...
Unfinished business
The literature on Reconstruction has long been the...
In this week’s TLS
A treasure trove of literary and historical tradit...
God, son and void
In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Morning Star (T...
Everything everywhere
It is hard not to think of André Breton’s writing ...
The man who could do all things
Leon Battista Alberti is one of the most extraordi...
A space between
Wayne McGregor, a resident choreographer at the Ro...
Bergson’s boom and bust
The life of Henri Bergson provides rich material f...
Parlez vous?
Bernard Cerquiglini is a former director of the In...
Lost for words
Ellen Jones reviewed Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil’s Ä...
Better than Barcelona?
The origins of the modern-day Spanish nation do no...
Dreamless sleeps
In the town, no one has a shadow. That is because ...