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What art have we been enjoying in lockdown? What are we most missing? And what is the future of art
Colin Grant on several hundred years of Jamaican excellence and dysfunction; fifty years since the d
The poet and novelist Adam Foulds on the evolution of loneliness and its traditionally privileged co
Hirsh Sawhney files a lockdown dispatch from New Haven, Connecticut, the uneasy home of Yale Univers
The TLS’s philosophy editor Tim Crane guides us through a selection of reviews and essays from this
Ian Buruma on the twentieth-century Italian writer Curzio Malaparte, a fascist and a fabulist with a
James Waddell on the disorderly history of alphabetic order; Beejay Silcox, who fled Cairo
Lawrence Douglas, in Massachusetts, on the presidential past, present and future of Donald Trump; Ir
William Shakespeare, the writer who – above all others, perhaps – keeps giving and giving. Michael C
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Ellen Crowell investigates an early-twentieth-century tale of doomed lesbian romance, decadent crypt
A recovering Alexander van Tulleken shares some thoughts on the British response to Covid-19; What c
Samuel Graydon reviews two new albums, by the folk troubadour Sam Lee and indie rock band Cornershop
Tim Parks talks us through the lockdown from Milan; A. N. Wilson explains the Prayer Book Controvers
Frances Wilson gets implausibly angry about the hypocrisy of Patrick O’Brian; Michèle Roberts makes
Edmund Gordon discusses whether Hilary Mantel's final Cromwell novel lives up to its billing - and w
This week the TLS is running an extract from The Mirror & the Light, the long-awaited third and
James Shapiro, the author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, discusses the history of West Side St
Rebecca Langlands on lessons learnt in the only known ancient Roman brothel; Caroline Moorehead revi
The Irish novelist reads an extract from her new novel, published in this week's TLS, in print,
