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A conversation between the novelist and essayist Zadie Smith and the journalist Carolina, recorded a

A recording of the inaugural Gabriel García Marquez lecture given this February by the novelist Chim

As the MeToo movement continues to focus our attentions on questions around abuse, consent and justi

How Macron went wrong

2019/2/7

Eighteen months after Emmanuel Macron rode a wave of optimism to the Élysée Palace, the French

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Everything points north

2019/1/31

Catherine Taylor on bookish goings on in the north of England, from her family’s bookshop in Sheffie

Reddit's new religions

2019/1/24

Imogen Russell Williams on children's books that tackle grief and war, “offering distressed adu

Egos and experiments

2019/1/17

Boyd Tonkin states the case – never overstated – for literature in translation, and reviews a commen

Finer points of murder

2019/1/10

Tom Stevenson offers a recent history of political assassination, from a CIA manual of 1953 to the J

With Stig Abell and Lucy DallasLara Pawson drops in to tell the tale of David Wojnarowicz, the New Y

An end-of-year edition, bringing together some of our favourite bits from the past twelve months: Ka

Who is Odysseus? Why can't he get home? And will the gods help or hinder his journey? In this specia

Arts of the Year 2018

2018/12/20

TLS editors discuss some memorable arts events from the past twelve months; plus, food and drink in

Ode to the orca

2018/12/13

Lucy Atkins charts our changing relationship with Orcinus orca, from "demon dolphin" to cuddly

Michael Caines on the little-known romantic William Gilbert, a “man of fine genius” (according to Wi

Our problem with cows

2018/11/29

Forty years since the controversial Spanish constitution of 1978, Rupert Shortt, Hispanic editor at

The best books of 2018

2018/11/22

A handful of TLS editors gather for the yearly process of picking through contributors' Books of the

Mary Beard joins us to answer the question: Is it accurate to call Donald Trump a fascist?, while&nb

To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, the TLS's History editor David Horspoo

Remembering Peterloo

2018/11/1

As Mike Leigh's film of the Peterloo massacre of 1819 is released, Clare Pettitt revisits the histor