Literature
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Spores and dust
Few of the notorious haunted houses in fiction are...
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...
The Panther in his cage
In the autumn of 1900, the twenty-four-year-old Ra...
‘This cruel, life’
Paul Celan, originally from Czernowitz in Romania ...
Diary of despair
In September 2021, the Swedish writer Johanna Ekst...
Riddle of the sands
To those of us who have lived and worked there, it...
Trials and error
Many of us are aware of vaccine controversies. Few...
In this week’s TLS
Rainer Maria Rilke always relied on the kindness o...
‘For Will has held my tongue’
On stage, Harriet Walter always conveys sharp inte...
The rise of the guru
Until recently, the prime minister was the most im...
Etched with vinegar
This year is the centenary of Sir Francis Carruthe...
Parochial
I thought myself superfluous, stepping aside for h...
Spare Him
Flesh has a thousand sons but I have one. He plays...
Crossword 1570
A PDf of this crossword can be found here The post...
Canned laughter
A courtroom sketch artist, a retired wrestler, an ...
A precarious world
Between October and December 2024, Mexican securit...