Times Literary Supplement
January 2025
In January, Josephine Crawley Quinn surveyed Ital...
A retailer of tales
Yusuf is twelve when he leaves his home and family...
Can man control trade?
For the past few months, I have been looking with ...
Into the Wild
We’re joined by Harriet Baker, the winner of the S...
An orchestra in hell
Early in 1943, Maria Mandl, the tyrannical, sadist...
Germany’s first Nazi hunter
Germany enjoys the reputation of having confronted...
Dreaming leaps
In 1927, twenty-one-year-old Ithell Colquhoun enro...
Glimpses of Camelot
When it came to creature comforts, Ithell Colquhou...
All this family business
“I’m not saying that history does not matter”, ins...
Another fool’s gold
Part-way through Natasha Brown’s new novel, Univer...
Catalogue of success
“Oxford has been doing bibliography in one form or...
Spores and dust
Few of the notorious haunted houses in fiction are...
The limits of friendship
How far is a bridge too far? When a tyrant – fledg...
The Greek experience
Jennifer T. Roberts has been teaching the ancient ...
A passport to roam
Commercial publishers are apt to be cautious; thei...
Gathering in the nations
This year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Cou...
Name that tuna
It’s easy to assume that the aquatic world is peac...
Hercules unchained
Hercules was leased to the State University of New...
Baking bad
In “Ode to Bread”, Pablo Neruda describes how flou...
Swimming with Cybertrucks
I used to like Elon Musk. There’s an openness to h...