Times Literary Supplement
Holding heads high
One might have assumed that the political thought ...
Seductive melancholy
On the death of his mother, Joachim Sartorius – a ...
‘Description is revelation’
Tom Allan has just written a brilliant book about ...
Life in the art world
Poor Artists may or may not function as a survival...
Photo-bombing skeletons
Ambush at Still Lake is the seventh collection of ...
On the tracks
Well received on its publication in 1983, David Wh...
Workers’ anthems
Politics in New Zealand and Australia is not going...
Greater than the sum
“Manchester is the south of the north”, writes Jea...
Riders on the storm
Early in 1981, Tony Benn, the darling of Labour’s ...
Crossword 1553
A PDF of this crossword is available here The post...
Putting pen to paper
Letters exchanged between scientists have always b...
The ‘un-nuanced ’80s’
The journalist David Rowell argues that when it co...
Poolside stories
This collection promises to “throw new light on a ...
‘Autumn’ / ‘Fall’
The TLS’s reviewer for J. B. Leishman’s translatio...
The jury’s out
Is the Booker prize bad for literature? Of course ...
Walking to work
I guess it will come as no surprise that I am not ...
Games with stasis
Behind every Frank Auerbach painting or drawing th...
Watch This Space
This week, Toby Lichtig talks to the new Booker Pr...
From Socratic suicide to “assisted dying”
There are some moments when I feel even more glad ...
The Penguin Book of Elegy
Reviewing Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan’s The Pe...