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In the know
Tension between knowing and not knowing propels Ch...
Betrayed by man
The Homeless (1899), by the Polish writer Stefan Ż...
Music across millennia
In 2005, when I was midway through my undergraduat...
Manual labour
Words printed on pages have been the principal mea...
Murder, he wrote and wrote
Confessions of a Thug offers few aesthetic rewards...
Sound and vision
Thud! A pickaxe striking stone. Zzzzzz! A vagrant ...
Still a rich boys’ club
She-Wolves is a continuation of sorts of Paulina B...
Bright lights, big cities
On February 19, 1933, participants at the first Al...
A hanging judge
Was Goethe a murderer? This may not be a tactful q...
Blood and flames
Goethe’s Faust does not go to hell but to heaven. ...
Late style
At the start of her preface to this book – a slim,...
Webs of words
In her new memoir, Nightshade Mother: A disentangl...
In this week’s TLS
The popular story of the glory that was Greece beg...
Crossword 1549
A PDF of this crossword is available here The post...
Coast
Calm, he said, in another languageI had become pro...
Last of the bohemians
Pansexual orgies, extremely long discourses on Mor...
Secrets of the mountain
Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain is Joachim B. Sc...
Looking, seeing, living
This book begins with the lecture that John Berger...
Sport imitates life
When Arsenal played Leeds United at Elland Road on...
Selected works
Lecturing at UC Berkeley in 1976, Seamus Heaney li...