Category Archives: Books

Books, Literature, Magazines, Previews, Reviews, Stories

Previews: London Review Of Books – March 24, 2022

March 16, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

Our new issue is now online feat. Fredric Jameson on Olga Tokarczuk, @TriciaLockwood on Kafka, in a tux, @KitchenBee on curry house curry, Colin Kidd on the US Supreme Court, and 28 responses to the war, published at the weekend. Cover by Anne Rothenstein: https://t.co/xaTOjYd3Vr pic.twitter.com/10fUwJp9Jv
— London Review of Books (@LRB) March 16, 2022

Books, Literature, Magazines, Previews, Reviews, Stories

Preview: Times Literary Supplement – March 18

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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Nelly Kaprièlian on Houellebecq’s Anéantir (Annihilate); @TobyLichtig on Howard Jacobson; @hettieveronica on influencers; Mark Wormald on Barrie Cooke and Seamus Heaney; @natsegnit on abandoned settlements – and more pic.twitter.com/dGTDT8mfAn
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 16, 2022

Books, Literature, Previews, Videos

Booker Prize: The 2022 International Long List

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We are delighted to announce the longlist for the #2022InternationalBooker Prize!

Read more here: https://t.co/VBBrTmfNIH #longlist #translatedfiction pic.twitter.com/aHePY8RzL4
— The Booker Prizes (@TheBookerPrizes) March 10, 2022

Books, Literature, Magazines, Previews, Stories

Preview: Times Literary Supplement – March 11

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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Stephen Kotkin on Ukraine, Russia and the West; @MaryNorrisTNY on Margaret Atwood’s essays; Gwendoline Riley on Marjorie Grant; @RozKaveney on the new Marlon James; @irinibus on burnout culture – and more pic.twitter.com/f1Ln4Dg9Rw
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 9, 2022

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Preview: New York Review Of Books – March 24

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Books, Interviews, Literature, Podcasts, Stories

Shakespeare & Company: ‘The Sinner And The Saint’ Author Kevin Birmingham

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🔪🩸NEW EPISODE🩸🔪

Today on the podcast: Dostoyevsky, the Parisian murderer, and the creation of a masterpiece, with Kevin Birmingham.

Listen here: https://t.co/stIgCv15Ri pic.twitter.com/ZbiYrM6GV9
— Shakespeare&Company (@Shakespeare_Co) March 3, 2022

Books, Literature, Magazines, Previews, Reviews, Stories

Previews: London Review Of Books – March 10

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Our new issue is now live feat. @simonakam on why @BritishArmy leadership doesn’t work, @SusanMcKay15 in Portadown, @skyita in Uttar Pradesh, Stephen Sedley on obscenity, @piercepenniless on exorcism, @xlorentzen on ‘Fuccboi’ & an Alexander Gorlizki cover: https://t.co/xaTOjYd3Vr pic.twitter.com/540a1VFkfs
— London Review of Books (@LRB) March 2, 2022

Books, Literature, Magazines, Previews, Reviews, Stories

Preview: Times Literary Supplement – March 4

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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @xenobepurvis on the real-life Mr Norris; @murielzagha on Florian Zeller’s new play; Bharat Tandon on Pankaj Mishra; @MikeHWH on country houses post-’45; @hoyer_kat on Merkel’s legacy; Kathryn Hughes on swooning – and more pic.twitter.com/ODKH20LnhO
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 2, 2022

Books, Literature, Magazines, Previews, Reviews, Stories

Preview: Times Literary Supplement – February 18

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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @thejulianevans on dispatches from the Donbas; Ann Hallamore Caesar on Pinocchio; @natsegnit on illness and fiction; @joemoransblog on work; @Kate_Elspeth on slime – and more pic.twitter.com/FAnmhRsJZ1
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) February 16, 2022

In this week’s TLS

Julian Evans’s TLS cover review looks at writing inspired by another quarrel between people of whom we need to know much more – in Ukraine and its Donbas region

By Martin Ivens

Showcase

European politics|Book Review

Shards of language

Dispatches from the Donbas

By Julian Evans

European literature|Book Review

A fairy tale, but with strings attached

The crossover appeal of a world-famous puppet

By Ann Hallamore Caesar

British literature|Book Review

Inheritors of the cult

Why we’re still obsessed with Shakespeare

By Chris Townsend

Biography|Book Review

On the way somewhere

New perspectives on a troubled celebrity chef

By George Berridge

Books, History, Paleontology, Reviews, Science

New Books: ‘Otherlands’ By Thomas Halliday (2022)

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In a new book, paleontologist Thomas Halliday offers an immersive look at pivotal moments in Earth’s history.

📕 Read the @SciMagBooks Review: https://t.co/HmLz9uv9Ks pic.twitter.com/hT0DiHG9bm
— Science Magazine (@ScienceMagazine) February 14, 2022