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

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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