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Preview: Times Literary Supplement – March 18

March 16, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Nelly Kaprièlian on Houellebecq’s Anéantir (Annihilate); @TobyLichtig on Howard Jacobson; @hettieveronica on influencers; Mark Wormald on Barrie Cooke and Seamus Heaney; @natsegnit on abandoned settlements – and more pic.twitter.com/dGTDT8mfAn
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 16, 2022

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Preview: Times Literary Supplement – March 11

March 9, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Stephen Kotkin on Ukraine, Russia and the West; @MaryNorrisTNY on Margaret Atwood’s essays; Gwendoline Riley on Marjorie Grant; @RozKaveney on the new Marlon James; @irinibus on burnout culture – and more pic.twitter.com/f1Ln4Dg9Rw
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 9, 2022

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Preview: Times Literary Supplement – March 4

March 2, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @xenobepurvis on the real-life Mr Norris; @murielzagha on Florian Zeller’s new play; Bharat Tandon on Pankaj Mishra; @MikeHWH on country houses post-’45; @hoyer_kat on Merkel’s legacy; Kathryn Hughes on swooning – and more pic.twitter.com/ODKH20LnhO
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) March 2, 2022

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Preview: Times Literary Supplement – February 18

February 16, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @thejulianevans on dispatches from the Donbas; Ann Hallamore Caesar on Pinocchio; @natsegnit on illness and fiction; @joemoransblog on work; @Kate_Elspeth on slime – and more pic.twitter.com/FAnmhRsJZ1
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) February 16, 2022

In this week’s TLS

Julian Evans’s TLS cover review looks at writing inspired by another quarrel between people of whom we need to know much more – in Ukraine and its Donbas region

By Martin Ivens

Showcase

European politics|Book Review

Shards of language

Dispatches from the Donbas

By Julian Evans

European literature|Book Review

A fairy tale, but with strings attached

The crossover appeal of a world-famous puppet

By Ann Hallamore Caesar

British literature|Book Review

Inheritors of the cult

Why we’re still obsessed with Shakespeare

By Chris Townsend

Biography|Book Review

On the way somewhere

New perspectives on a troubled celebrity chef

By George Berridge

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Preview: Times Literary Supplement – February 11

February 9, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Tim Blanning on Maria Theresa; @islomane on nature writing; @kate_manne on Anscombe, Foot, Midgley and Murdoch; Becca Rothfeld dismantles Hanya Yanagihara’s new novel; Andrew Motion on the young Larkin – and more pic.twitter.com/wNbj66RkQb
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) February 9, 2022

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Preview: Times Literary Supplement – January 28

January 26, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Andrew Scull on depression; a new poem by Fiona Benson; Benjamin Markovits on American essays; @mialevitin on Mary Gaitskill; @JamesCahill on Derek Jarman; @YvonneReddick on climbing – and more pic.twitter.com/xln7WKKJOz
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 26, 2022

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – January 21

January 19, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @KieranSetiya on David Chalmers; Adam Sutcliffe on Tokarczuk’s Books of Jacob; @616Clifford on Obama’s presidency; poems by Thomas MacGreevy, discovered by @ArringtonLauren; @GoingMedieval on the Black Death – and more pic.twitter.com/G1SEQ0aUCF
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 19, 2022

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Preview: Times Literary Supplement – January 14

January 12, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring T. H. Breen on the American Revolution; @ae_stallings on Edna St Vincent Millay; @agnesjuliet on the medical mistreatment of women; @JC_Scutts on love; @LamornaAsh on The Matrix; @judecook_ on twins – and more pic.twitter.com/Hs1LX6wMwV
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 12, 2022

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – January 7

January 5, 2022 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @NabeelahJ on British Muslims; @NickHoldstock on surveillance and detention in Xinjiang; @lucyamcdonald on irrationality; @kassiastclair on colour; @littlemaddles on comedians – and more pic.twitter.com/rSV3b159xS
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) January 5, 2022

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – December 24

December 22, 2021 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

A festive double issue of @TheTLS, featuring Anne Rowe on Iris Murdoch’s Christmas; an essay by George III, discovered by @DavidRArmitage; @koehlercooks on Proust and YSL; @wmarybeard on Peter Fiennes’s journeys through Greece; @misbehavingmonk on Diane Di Prima – and more pic.twitter.com/YsLVBETzGD
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) December 22, 2021