Literature
Immerse yourself in the world of literature with updates on book releases, author interviews, literary awards, and literary events.
You can’t stay at the Y-M-C-A
They’re closing the Central YMCA, just off Tottenh...
Down in Dungeness
Why would an artist choose to move from the cultur...
Terrible beauty
In the title work of Voices of the Fallen Heroes, ...
Obelisks and triumphal arches
Benito Mussolini unveiled ancient Rome: the temple...
Crossword 1561
A PDF of this crossword can be found here The post...
Credited at last
From May to September 2023, 11,500 screenwriters r...
Bowlful of dead bees
In Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster called his ...
Something to be said
Speaking of her late husband, Valerie Eliot once r...
None so queer as volk
Scholars are difficult subjects for the biographer...
In this week’s TLS
Can the life be separated from the work? Paying tr...
Checks and balances
In January 2024, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield deli...
A preserved blackboard
Today Albert Einstein is, literally speaking, nowh...
Eggs à la Nabocoque
There is little more personal than a recipe. Not t...
Bridging the divide
Ever since 2016, Americans have been struggling wi...
Magical thinking
Book titles that begin “The Treasury of …” suggest...
The long reign of King Coal
At the end of June earlier this year, a diesel fre...
Anarchy in the UK
This is the second new book that David Graeber, th...
Starmer’s magic lamp
Imagine it is 2022 and you are a Labour Party stra...
Secrets of the museum
This smartly presented story, the first in a dual ...
Orpheus to her Eurydice
Like much of Domenico Starnone’s fiction, this sho...