TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An extraordinary woman’ = Gisele Pelicot’s dignity before a watching world; What I learnt from Athol Fugard; Caspar David Friedrich; Stalin’s don and Hitler’s royal allies…
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Only Way Is Down’ – On hopeful pessimism; The death of a poet in war; On democracy; Did museums purchase or plunder and Crippen’s crimes…
Hope, despair and retreat in an unquiet age By Kieran Setiya
The crusades in the English literary imagination By David Abulafia
The role of women in crusading history
Sixty years of turmoil in Egypt
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Troubled Mind’ – Oliver Sack’s personal demons…
Revisiting W. H. Auden’s postwar poetry collection The Shield of Achilles By John Fuller
The inner life of Oliver Sacks, as revealed by his letters By Andrew Scull
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (February 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Journalist, Assassin’ – The many lives of Joan Didion…
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (February 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Real Ruins?’ = Mary Beard on what gets left behind; AI’s literary triumph; A Nobel laureate’s prose falls short; The price of woke and Kissinger’s boys…
The Argentine pontiff who accepts his own fallibility By A. N. Wilson
By Mary Beard
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Outsider Art’ – The life and work of John Singer Sargent; American Sex; The English country house…
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An Individual Talent’ – T.S. Eliot’s Collected Prose…
Eliot’s prose writings in one chronological sweep
Why we should listen to those with opposing views
By Carol Tavris
How foreign money has transformed English football
By Mike Jakeman
The loss of civic space
By Ian Sansom
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Bloomsbury treasures’ – Newly discovered poems and photographs…
Times Literary Supplement (December 11, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The tragic Queen of France’ – The legend of Marie Antoinette; William Dalrymple’s Indian empire; Mary Beard – A night at the museum; The coffee house scientist; What Kindle readers want…
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