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Bernardine Evaristo speaks to the TLS's fiction editor Toby Lichtig about her novel '
Having been staged in Edinburgh and Melbourne, David Greig's adaptation of Stani
As the Nobel in Literature and the Booker Prize break the rules, split opinion, and (probably) boost
In this bonus edition of the podcast, William Collins have taken over the feed to play a new episode
As #PublishingSoWhite continues to shame publishers into diversifying their lists, Colin Grant discu
Was the 1960s a good decade for Norman Mailer? Thomas Meaney reconsiders the work; Henry Hitchings o
Elaine Showalter on the “avid, ardent, driven, generous, narcissistic, Olympian, obtuse, maddening,
"When future historians study these troubled times, they will marvel at the relentless rise of sea l
The future of the planet is in question this week, or at least, humanity's place on it, as Gabrielle
We turn to children's and YA literature in this week's episode, with Rozalind Dineen and Toby Lichti
What kind of son was Philip Larkin? The TLS's poetry editor Alan Jenkins finds insight in some
The whereabouts of the "Salvator Mundi", the most costly artwork in the world, are still uncertain,
Jill Lepore traces the history of conspiracy theories and the conditions that allow them to thrive;
Following the discovery of a strange book, Sarah Green revises the story of the late nineteenth-cent
Nick Groom ponders the fate of the beleaguered British countryside and shares new theories about the
"The sociable side of nineteenth-century musical life is not acknowledged as often as it should be..
It’s the centenary of the birth of Iris Murdoch, the novelist-philosopher who dominated the literary
Do the kids – in these times of identity politics – still read Updike? The answer is “probably not”.
Thea Lenarduzzi on the cultural history of gesture and body language; What is Chaucer to us today? W
TLS contributors – including David Baddiel, Mary Beard, Paul Muldoon and Elizabeth Lowry – give thei
