January 2025

By Times Literary Supplement | Created at 2025-04-01 13:22:48 | Updated at 2025-04-04 05:14:05 2 days ago

 In January, Josephine Crawley Quinn surveyed Italy’s African empire, J. S. Barnes scrutinized the latest iteration of Count Dracula, Carol Tavris argued we should listen to those with opposing views and Stephen Romer reappraised the collected prose of T. S. Eliot. Here are some highlights from the month:

What about the workers?: A new English translation of Marx’s magnum opus

At home with the rosbifs: The popularity of traditional English cooking

Something to be said: Eliot’s prose writings in one chronological sweep

Obelisks and triumphal arches: Italy’s African empire 

The rolling stone: Two biographies of Leibniz, a man of ‘great ambition, infinite interests and infinitesimal sleep’

Bridging the divide: Why we should listen to those with opposing views

Stoned on sunlight: a triumphant new translation of a Romanesco dialect poet

Eggs a la Nabocoque: What a writer’s favourite recipe reveals to their readers 

You can’t stay at the Y-M-C-A: The loss of civic space

Strange attraction: A remake of Murnau’s genre-defining vampire tale

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