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Mother Knows BestMichele Pridmore-Brown considers recent insights into parenthood from neurosci
This week, we go in search of the meaning of life, death and the universe, in the capable hands of N
Irina Dumitrescu considers what psoriasis tells us about social outcasts.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/a
This week, Margarette Lincoln on the secret life of Daniel Defoe, government agent; and Claire Lowdo
This week, Helen Bynum enjoins us to consider the secret lives of plants; and Jacqueline Banerjee on
Geoffrey Wheatcroft considers how the First World War triggered a wave of xenophobia and a Red Scare
Flora Willson explores the struggle of four women composers to have their work heard, and Biancamari
In our first instalment, we talk to novelist Dame Margaret Drabble and her son, gardener and TV pres
Mark Mazower asks: did the Ottomans preserve the Parthenon and Elgin wreck it?https://www.the-tls.co
This week, Margaret Drabble and Joe Swift talk about the relationship between literature and gardeni
Ferdinand Mount considers how the English upper classes appropriated fair play from the lower orders
This week we hear about the pursuit of the perfect library, and celebrate the brilliance of crime wr
Peter Godfrey-Smith on two books about living like a deer and learning from the birds.https://www.th
This week, we examine the highs and very many lows of the writing life. Tom Seymour Evans explores a
In an extract from Lawcraft, published by TLS Books last month, Geoffrey Robertson explains how
This week, Richard Norton-Taylor braves the terrifying world of cyberattacks and their brutal cost;
N. J. Enfield considers how software engineers became social engineers in our democracies.https://ww
This week, Elizabeth Dearnley hunts for the hags, fairies and wandering women of the pagan past; and
Nessa Carey explores how recent scientific breakthroughs allow experimentation with the DNA of all l
Richard Smyth remembers the equanimity and attentiveness of Ronald Blythe; and Mary Flannery on the
