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A "new" ending to a Nabokov novel and the unregarded first volume of Vasily Grossman's epic, the "So
If capitalism is broken, can it be fixed? And can it save the environment? Joseph E. Stiglitz discus
The Omani novelist Jokha al-Harthi and the translator Marilyn Booth won this year's Man Booker
Anna Katharina Schaffner on the cultural history of fat and fat phobia; the TLS's travel editor Cath
To mark the bicentenary of Queen Victoria's birth, the TLS's history editor David Horspool guides us
The comedian and writer Helen Lederer joins us to discuss gender and comedy and the new Comedy Women
Robert Macfarlane joins us to discuss our "peculiar times", the memory of ice, and the world beneath
As Avengers: Endgame is released, Roz Kaveney sweeps us through the shifting cast of superheroes and
Ruth Scurr on the master biographer Robert A. Caro, whose subjects include Robert Moses, Lyndon
There is only one author to whom the TLS devotes an issue every year: William Shakespeare. Mich
The novelist discusses his new book Machines Like Me with the TLS's fiction editor Toby Lichtig Host
Shauneen Lambe on ephibiphobia, fear of the teenager, and why we get youth justice wrong; Alice Bloc
Anna Picard discusses the problems of subject matter and sensationalism in the new opera Jack the Ri
Richard Fortey takes us on an energetic sprint through 65 million years of Europe's complex biologic
Carol Tavris considers new approaches to the old problem of old age (and the newer problem of old ol
“What we often forget in the daily drumbeat of abuses by the dominant tech companies is our complici
Phil Baker guides us through the morbid, wistful and yet immensely charming world of the writer and
David Coward celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of Cyrano de Bergerac, whose radical
With Stig Abell and Lucy DallasToby Lichtig comes in to talk the wide scope of Jewish culture, the “
The writer and comedian Charlie Higson, half of the team behind The Fast Show, on the curious h