TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The state of British poetry’ by Tristram Fane Saunders…
The forward march of British poetry
A history of childbirth and a defence of the C-section
By Leah Hazard
Newly discovered photographs of Baudelaire’s muse
The thrill of marine archaeology
By Alan Jenkins
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Constable vs Turner’ by Ferdinand Mount….
Turner is on our banknotes, Constable in our hearts By Ferdinand Mount
Coming out of Tate Britain just before noon on Budget Day, you are blinded by a blistering white sun behind Vauxhall Cross. The steepling glass towers south of the river are washed in an opal mist, the ziggurats of the MI6 HQ eclipsed to a ruined beige. Vauxhall Bridge gleams in the scarlet and yellow of a Turner sunset. J. M. W. would have rushed to the Embankment, whipped out his sketchbook, then worked up the whole shimmering scene into a six-footer and called it something like “The End of England”. John Constable would probably have turned away to catch the next coach to Hampstead Heath to paint Branch Hill Pond again.
How the young Dylan Thomas repeatedly stole from others By Alessandro Gallenzi
A love-hate relationship recalled by France’s ‘greatest living writer’ By Marie Darrieussecq
Why stylish stationery won’t change your life By Ian Sansom
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘A Snail’s Tale – An unpublished story by Sylvia Townsend Warner…
Tactful notes from a literary self-promoter By Nicola Shulman
Marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth By Devoney Looser
Irritating professors for the ages By Peter Thonemann
An unpublished story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, with a commentary by Peter Swaab By Sylvia Townsend Warner
Charting Seamus Heaney’s Wordsworthian journey By Roy Foster
Writing novels by AI – and committee By Gordon Fraser
Our contributors choose their favourites
Simone Weil’s ethical life class By A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Extinction rebellion’ – How Tennyson speaks to our fears.
The troubled history of US-China relations By Katie Stallard
Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time By Miles Leeson
Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory By Angela Leighton
Tales of the uncanny from a master of ambiguity By Joyce Carol Oates
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Artist in the making: Joyce Carol Oates on Sally Mann’s photographic craft’
The British upper classes today By Michael Hall
A how-to book by ‘one of the greatest’ American photographers’ By Joyce Carol Oates
László Krasznahorkai, Nobel laureate in literature By George Szirtes
Religion, immigration, gender politics and severed heads By Mary Beard
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Sylvia Plath’s Ariel at sixty; The case against progress; Patricial Lockwood’s bag of scraps…
The sixtieth anniversary ‘heritage’ edition of Ariel By Seamus Perry
Thomas Pynchon’s haunted vision of history By James Marcus
The wisdom of Bertie Wooster By Tim Lake
The precocious poetry of Charlotte Brontë By Samantha Ellis
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Lawrence Durrell, “so many towns” that could “become Alexandria” – “founded”, as indeed so many were, “At the doors of Africa”, “Upon a parting”. Yet what other town could boast of anything to compare with that “last pale / Lighthouse”, the Pharos of Alexandria, “like a Samson blinded”?
Literary myth-making, from Alexandria to Corfu By Jonathan Keates
The pleasures and challenges of making – and describing – great wines By George Berridge
Investigating the deathbed conversion of Oscar Wilde By Richard A. Kaye
To what extent are addicts responsible for their actions? By Crispin Sartwell
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Tech Bro Utopia’ – Why Bacon’s New Atlantis is Peter Thiel’s favorite book; The monarch who built Britain; Charles and the carbuncles; The miseries of Victor Hugo’s daughter…
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Daniel Karlin about his twelve-month abstinence from the printed word. As one of his friends remarked, he must have been the first person to make a New Year’s resolution to read less.
A year without reading By Daniel Karlin
AI, literary theory and traditional storytelling By Benjamin Markovits
The ethics of industrial insect farming By Simone Gubler
Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages By Elizabeth Abbott
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