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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 20, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 18, 2025): In this week’s TLS, Mary Beard and Margaret Drabble are not quite getting away from it all this summer. For our summer books selection, they have picked a brace of biographies of Labour prime ministers past and present. Along with Daniel Mendelsohn’s recent translation of the Odyssey, our Classics editor chooses Alan Johnson’s biography of Harold Wilson, her mother’s favourite politician. By Martin Ivens

Summer books 2025

Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading

Young and damned

Three teen-centric novels arrive at a time of national soul-searching

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – MAY 30, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 28, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Their dollar, our problem’ – America’s crumbling financial empire…

“The dollar plays a similar role to that of the English language in global commerce”, writes Edward Chancellor in his lead review of three books devoted to American financial supremacy. “Both enjoy network effects: the more they are used, the more others are obliged to use them.”

By Martin Ivens

King Dollar’s shaky throne and fall

Can the world’s dominant currency survive Donald Trump?

By Edward Chancellor

‘Literature is the antidote to numbness’

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – MAY 9, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Other America’ – The Hispanic Achievement…

Putting the blame on Spain

Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority

Behind the velvet rope

The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess

Night visions

Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist

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Times Literary Supplement – April 25, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Blakean Spark’ – The artist’s ‘Imaginative Eye’…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Jenny Uglow on William Blake; @GraceLiv on the arrest of Pinochet; Emily Hauser on the Parthenon Marbles; Clifford Thompson on Ta-Nehisi Coates; @danielsusskind on AI and the West; @RRussellDavies on Ira Gershwin – and more pic.twitter.com/R7rbVeiIRD
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) April 23, 2025

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Times Literary Supplement – April 18, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Plays for Today’ – On what makes Shakespeare great; Miracles of Siena; Conversations about Gaza; Cyber insecurity and a Letter from Greenland…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Peter Holland, Lois Potter and Margreta de Grazia on Shakespeare; Nikhil Venkatesh on utilitarianism; @murielzagha on Holy Cow; @MirandaFrance1 on Sergio del Molino; @BorisDralyuk on Zbigniew Herbert; @lindseyhilsum on Greenland – and more pic.twitter.com/SBx8HrE7jx
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) April 16, 2025

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Times Literary Supplement – April 11, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Burning Spitit’ – On capturing Dante; Dickens’s feverish imagination…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @hjccochrane and Rod Mengham on Dante; Margaret Drabble on Dickens; @MishaGlenny on tech bros; @nclarke14 on coastlines; @mialevitin on Solvej Balle; @nicholsone99 on Hannibal and Scipio; Pablo Scheffer on Amsterdam – and more pic.twitter.com/iYE4kuUuyA
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) April 9, 2025

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Times Literary Supplement – March 28, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Many Muses’ – The women who inspired Rainer Maria Rilke; The real prime minister; Elon Musk’s big wink; The occult world of Ithell Colquhoun…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Ben Hutchinson on Rilke and women; @ConflictedThom on Saudi Arabia; @Samfr on Morgan McSweeney; @JenniferHiggie and @TobyLichtig on Ithell Colquhoun; Andrew Motion on Abdulrazak Gurnah; @helenscales on ocean sounds – and more pic.twitter.com/m2VyXmv02z
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 26, 2025

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Times Literary Supplement – March 21, 2025 Preview

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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…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Emily Wilson on Gisèle Pelicot; Damon Galgut on Athol Fugard; @aliceblackhurst on Agnès Varda; @michaelscaines on Hamlet (GTA and RSC productions); Claire Lowdon on David Szalay; @sophieolive on Djuna Barnes – and more pic.twitter.com/zDerxSMNR2
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 19, 2025

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Times Literary Supplement – March 14, 2025 Preview

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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…

Cold comfort farm

Hope, despair and retreat in an unquiet age By Kieran Setiya

Taking up the cross

The crusades in the English literary imagination By David Abulafia

Not just a man’s war

The role of women in crusading history

Under the patriarchy

Sixty years of turmoil in Egypt

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Times Literary Supplement – March 7, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Troubled Mind’ – Oliver Sack’s personal demons…

A fresh classical sunlight

Revisiting W. H. Auden’s postwar poetry collection The Shield of Achilles By John Fuller

Awakening

The inner life of Oliver Sacks, as revealed by his letters By Andrew Scull

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Andrew Scull on Oliver Sacks; John Fuller on Auden’s Shield of Achilles; Krishan Kumar on nationalism; @sophieolive on Dora Carrington; Paul Quinn on Jonathan Meades; @irinibus on Saint Leoba – and much more pic.twitter.com/UHUNWR5JAz
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 5, 2025