Times Literary Supplement
Imperial graffiti
Jean Genet (1910–86) knew the story of his life wo...
The edges of atrocity
A. B. Yehoshua once said that, although Aharon App...
Just do it
Louise Erdrich’s novels have always been regional ...
‘Darling, they have discovered Dynamite’
For decades the so-called New York School of paint...
Buried twice
Genevieve Taggard, an American poet active from th...
Re-creating Lonesome
There’s no beating “Your Arkansas Traveler”. Were ...
Like mother, like daughter
It’s 1969, and Karachi is buzzing. Twentysomething...
Wrong answer
When your previous book was a bestseller (and Bara...
New Tolstoys
In Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the birt...
Little paws
There was a time, before the pandemic took her to ...
“Guttish” escapades
This adventure story about four resourceful siblin...
At the batting crease
British sport loves a rogue. George Best, Alex Hig...
Old French loopholes
The medieval French farces were originally perform...
Outstaying our welcome
In his new book, Should We Go Extinct?, Todd May p...
Hemingway’s blue pencil
In Hemingway’s Art of Revision, John Beall combs d...
Israel and Palestine
Whereas Tony Klug’s analysis of recent books deali...
Pint taken
We have received further nominations for our list ...
‘The Logical Conclusion’
As Ian Hamilton writes in Against Oblivion (2002),...
Farewell Peter Green
In Athens in the 1960s the classicist Peter Green ...
More Roman than the Romans
It is not exactly news that there are plenty of mo...