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A weekly journal for literature and ideas. We publish book reviews, book extracts, essays and poems by leading writers from around the world. Each week, we also review the latest in fiction, film, opera, theatre, dance, radio and television.
TLS | November 15, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
2 days ago · In this week’s TLS. Novels that make the Booker prize shortlist often get overlooked in the TLS ’s Books of the Year feature. This year, however, Percival Everett’s reimagining of Huckleberry Finn, James, received more nominations than any other. By Martin Ivens.
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TLS | November 8, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Nov 8, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. Contemplating his likely end, Vladimir Putin’s gadfly opponent Alexei Navalny joked that his memoir, Patriot (reviewed by Wendy Slater), was bound to be a bestseller – “The book’s author has been murdered by a villainous president; what more could the marketing department ask for?”. By Martin Ivens.
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Literature. Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath, Murakami, Jane Austen and James Baldwin, metaphysical poets and the Bloomsbury set, New Criticism and post-colonialism: in essays and reviews, our writers assess the latest fiction in English and in translation, and explore poetry, prose and criticism from across the world and across the centuries.
TLS | March 29, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Mar 29, 2024 · Regular features. The letters of Ray Bradbury; carving up the solar system; Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-the-nation novel; the limits of consent – and much more.
Gliff by Ali Smith | Book review | Nat Segnit | The TLS
2 days ago · GLIFF. 288pp. Hamish Hamilton. £18.99. Ali Smith. Thirteen-year-old Briar and his younger sister Rose are hiding out in an empty house against an unspecified threat. The keys to the house are attached to a see-through plastic keyring containing a photograph of smiling children. Briar wonders if the photograph is of the house’s former ...
October 15, 2021 | Book reviews, essays and more. - TLS
October 15, 2021 | TLS. In this week’s TLS. This week we celebrate Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibar-born, Brighton-based winner of the Nobel prize in literature
December 10, 2021 | The TLS
December 10, 2021 | TLS. In this week’s TLS. Told the shocking news that she had been secretly described by her lifelong partner Gertrude Stein as “a liar of the most sordid unillumined undramatic unimaginative prostitute type, coward, ungenerous, conscienceless, mean, vulgarly triumphant and remorseless, caddish, in short just plain low”, Alice B. …
November 5, 2021 | The TLS
In this week’s TLS. Claire Tomalin’s new biography, The Young H. G. Wells, limits itself to “the roller-coaster” narrative of the writer’s earlier years before the First World War. By Martin Ivens.
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