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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 3, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (May 1, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Making it New’ – A.E. Stallings on the innovative classicism of Anne Carson’s poetry; Salman Rushdie’s memoir of survival; Politics and performance and more…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @ae_stallings on Anne Carson; @LawDavF on Nato; @OldFortunatus on Richard Sennett; Peter Kemp on Salman Rushdie; @digkabri on Linear B; poems by Carson, @MissLizBerry and Yehuda Amichai (tr. Robert Alter) – and more pic.twitter.com/BMOo6lGs4N
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) May 1, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 26, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Mormon Conquest’ – Seth Perry on a people of the book; Is ‘green growth’ a mirage; Virginia Woolf’s rural retreat; China’s Shakespeare…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Seth Perry on Mormonism; @xlorentzen on the Democrats; @SansyG on Tommy Orange; Kit Fan on Du Fu; @nheller on the Buddha; @PD_Smith on dust; @bjkingape on animal communication; a new poem by Michael Longley – and more pic.twitter.com/K6UiyhyXHR
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) April 24, 2024

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Arts & Literature: Kenyon Review – Spring 2024

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Kenyon Review – April 19, 2024: The 2024 Spring issue features Beth Bachmann’s 2023 Short Fiction Contest-winning story, chosen by judge Danielle Evans; fiction by Nick Almeida and Lauren Cassani Davis; poetry by Fatima Jafar and Marcus Wicker; and a folio of Literary Curiosities, which features work by Jennifer Chang, J. D. Debris, Summer Farah, Eliza Gilbert, Christine Imperial, Phoebe Peter Oathout, Tega Oghenechovwen, Maya C. Popa, and more. The cover art is a detail of Chitra Ganesh’s City Inside Her, from the artist’s Architects of the Future portfolio.

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 19, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘A Heavy Reckoning’ – Shakespeare and War’; Judgment at Tokyo; Iranian women in revolt; Memoirs of a sociopath and A Chilean masterpiece…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Andrew Hadfield, @OldFortunatus, Laurie Maguire and @BruceABoucher on Shakespeare; Rana Mitter on the Tokyo tribunal; Neguin Yavari on Iranian protests; Michèle Roberts on Édouard Louis; M. C. on @gaystheword – and more pic.twitter.com/EK5nPwYtBD
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) April 17, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 12, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Man Into Marble’ – Corin Throsby and Kathryn Sutherland on the real Byron; Anthony Burgess on music; Left in charge at the palazzo; Revolutionary Russia; A shorter Long Day’s Journey and What is lyric verse?…

This week’s @TheTLS marks the bicentenary of Byron’s death, including two newly published letters. Also: Stephen Lovell on revolutionary Russia; me on Long Day’s Journey into Night; @Tiny_Camels on Jennifer Croft; @akennedysmith on 1950s Venice; @rinireg on eclipses – and more pic.twitter.com/nx02ouQKFO
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) April 10, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 5, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 3, 2024): The ‘The Art Issue’ features ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ – Tom Seymour Evans: Carson McCullers’s unruly life; Violence and Climate Change; Posing for John Singer Sargent and Huckleberry Jim – Mark Twain’s escaped slave wrests control of his story…

Life at the sad café

Carson McCullers: a novelist of the marginalized and ‘those struggling to understand who they are’

By Tom Seymour Evan

Huckleberry Jim

Eddie Hodges and Archie Moore in The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, 1961

Mark Twain’s escaped slave wrests control of his story

By Clifford Thompson

Nods and winks of recognition

Percival Everett’s wry, provocative novel on the publishing world brought to the screen

By Colin Grant

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Books: Literary Review Magazine – April 2024

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Literary Review – April 2, 2024: The latest issue features ‘From Bebop to Britpop’; Legends of Orkney; A Garden of One’s Own and Writing Doomsday…

Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney By Peter Marshall

By JOHN KEAY

England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country and How to Set Them Straight By Tom Baldwin & Marc Stears

By RICHARD VINEN

Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Espionage, Murder and Justice in Northern Ireland By Henry Hemming

By MALACHI O’DOHERTY

Stakeknife’s Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA’s Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War By Richard O’Rawe

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London Review Of Books – April 4, 2024 Preview

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London Review of Books (LRB) – March 27, 2024: The latest issue features Brandon Taylor – Two Years With Zola,,,

Mary Wellesley – Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words by Jenni Nuttall

Moshé Machover, James McAuley, Avital Balwit, Brian Vickers, Pat Butcher, Joe Oldaker, Arthur M. Shapiro, Penny Collier, John Potts

Mike Jay – Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep by Kenneth Miller

T.J. Clark – Poem: ‘Clapham in March’

Michael Ledger-Lomas: Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect by John SloanTroubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum by Owen Davies

Michael Hofmann – The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness by Halldór Guðmundsson, translated by Philip Roughton

Brandon Taylor – Is it even good?

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement-March 29, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (March 27, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Illustrating Ray Bradbury’ – Michael Caines on a writer who transcended genre; Fifteen French Kings; Spy stories; Neel Mukherjee’s art and artifice; Space colonization and Andrew O’Hagan on the Cally Road….

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @michaelscaines on Ray Bradbury’s letters; @erikanesvold on space colonization; @NicholasMorto11 on Byzantium; @CamilleRalphs_ on the Yellow Book women; @suzifeay on Andrew O’Hagan; Geertje Bol on consent; @KieranSetiya on the past – and more pic.twitter.com/3GE0IaH1i2
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 27, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement-March 22, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (March 22, 2024): The latest issue features ‘All the Lonely People’ – Charles Foster on a modern-day epidemic; Shakespeare and Bloomsbury; D.H. Lawrence, cuckhold; Marilynne Robinson’s god; Paul Theroux’s Orwell…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @tweedpipe on loneliness; Andrew Holter on Helen Keller; Gabriel Josipovici on Shakespeare, Bloombsbury and Beckett; @rwilliamsparis on Annie Ernaux and photography; @JollyAlice on Paul Theroux; Simone Gubler on fatphobia – and much more pic.twitter.com/nlzNR1MW0B
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 20, 2024