Times Literary Supplement (November 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Uncommon Reader’ – Virginia Woolf in literary tradition..

What we want from her books

Virginia Woolf as reader, writer and literary inspiration By Sophie Oliver

A star is torn

The unravelling of Vivien Leigh’s marriage amid her mental health breakdown By Vanessa Curtis

Ignorant armies

History as an ideological battleground By Niall Ferguson

Bergson’s boom and bust

How the world’s most famous thinker fell out of fashion By Mark Sinclair

Times Literary Supplement (November 13, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Books of the Year’ – TLS writers choose their favourites…

Strings of her heart

A cellist is haunted by the history of her instrument By Norma Clarke

Neighbourhood watch

Frank Auerbach and his visions of north London By Rod Mengham

Who is the real puppet?

A spectacular production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique By Paul Griffiths

Times Literary Supplement (October 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Scare Stories’ – On modern horror. Asked why he liked horror films, or terror films as he preferred to call them, Kingsley Amis wrote: “like Mark Twain on a dissimilar occasion, I have an answer to that: I don’t know”. He viewed horror as purely “harmless” entertainment. That explanation might satisfy teenage addicts, but moralists, psychologists and literary critics are inclined to examine the bloody entrails of the genre to divine deeper truths.

Dynamic, not doomed

Taking the British Revolution out of the Restoration’s shadow By Jonathan Fitzgibbons

Fiction for geeks and freaks

The decades before horror became respectable By Mark Storey

Married to amazement

How Mary Oliver ‘encourages us to believe’ By Rory Waterman

Green terror

An Australian vision of the eco-apocalypse By Tom Seymour Evans