Literature
Immerse yourself in the world of literature with updates on book releases, author interviews, literary awards, and literary events.
Here are the winners of the 2024 National Book Awa...
After a long ceremony and lots of wonderful speech...
Here are all the winners of the 2024 Canadian Writ...
Yesterday in Toronto, the Writers’ Trust of Canada...
Texas public school students could soon be tested ...
In bummer news for all fans of the separation of c...
All the kingdoms
Towards the end of Tessa Hadley’s engaging new nov...
Precarious eminence
Joan Smith’s history of Roman imperial women in th...
Love and death
When Annie Ernaux started sleeping with the photog...
What we want from her books
“How should one read a book?” Virginia Woolf asked...
Pedalo with Satan
Is contemporary poetry uniquely obsessed with iden...
A star is torn
In a market crowded with full-length biographies o...
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...
Lost for words
Ellen Jones reviewed Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil’s Ä...