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The critic and novelist Elizabeth Lowry joins Thea Lenarduzzi and Toby Lichtig to dis

Dancing on Air

2020/10/15

From a ballet stream to Homer's wine-dark sea. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by th

Milk as Metaphor

2020/10/8

From a carvery lunch in Howards End to emotional Eurocrats. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are

Seduction and Uprisings

2020/10/1

From Ovid to the "Black Spartacus". Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the TLS's cla

Murder at the Opera

2020/9/24

From Poirot on the River Nile to Verdi's take on the infamous Scottish play. Thea Lenarduzzi and Luc

Books! Books! Books!

2020/9/16

Toby Lichtig talks us through this year's Booker shortlisted novels, plus a couple of others, and Lu

In 1405, Christine de Pisan took up the pen in defense of her maligned sex, imagining a 'City of Lad

The TLS, rewind #4

2020/8/26

Throughout August, we are revisiting our books roundups from previous years, and today we’re returni

The TLS, rewind #3

2020/8/19

Throughout August, we are revisiting our books roundups from previous years, to give you a chance to

The TLS, rewind #2

2020/8/12

Throughout August, we are revisiting books roundups from previous years, to give you a chance once a

The TLS, rewind #1

2020/8/5

Throughout August, we are revisiting books roundups from previous years, to give you a chance to cat

Gabrielle Walker talks us through three unhelpful attitudes to global warming, as exemplified in the

Life as a Roman emperor

2020/7/22

What style of life did an ancient Roman emperor lead? How did he actually spend his time? Mary Beard

How the West was written

2020/7/15

Geoff Dyer on why Larry McMurtry’s novel Lonesome Dove was one of the most memorable reading experie

Romance versus realism

2020/7/8

Min Wild on recent attempts to get to grips with that most slippery of beasts, the history of the no

Lynsey Hanley on the Pet Shop Boys and how a music duo that has always refused to play the pop game

When, last year the writer and activist Bernardine Evaristo, won the Booker Prize for fiction – beco

TLS editors pick through the books some of our writers will be reading this summer, and share their

The death row lawyer Clive Stafford Smith certainly can’t, especially as this week should have seen