The TLS

Towards a philosophy of life writing

RT @rwilliamsparis: I'm over the moon to have a new, fascinating, complex and not a little strange piece by the wonderful Marie Darrieussecq in the new @TheTLS. Translated by me.

RT @ajgoldmann: I'm beyond thrilled to be making my @TheTLS debut reviewing Castellucci's mesmerizing staging of Messiaen's "Saint François d'Assise" @SbgFestival. Far too little has been written about this landmark production. Hopefully this will serve as a corrective.

RT @George_Berridge: From @TheTLS in March 2024: J. S. Barnes on Patrick Stewart and the ‘bruised, solemn little boy’ behind the mask

Horror at Halloween; T. S. Eliot at play; Vermeer’s afterlife; Anni Albers, pioneer; Monet and addiction; how to play the Dane; Brontë and Gaskell – and much more.  This week’s TLS is out now

How a dictator saw off bungling Anglo-American spies

A new angle on Medieval faith and monarchy

No political moderation followed the triumph of the Bolsheviks

Faithlessness and fraud across the university estate

Philosophical emergencies, artistic output and tortured heroes

A century and a half of electoral fraud in America

I’m currently in the middle of a tour around the UK, with a one-night show called “More Secret Histories of Rome” (“More” because I did “Secret Histories

Heidegger’s philosophy, John Berger’s G., Cats (and dogs), etc

The putsch that heralded Soviet collapse

Hardy’s The Hand of Ethelberta at 150

A memoir of a family in flight from the Nazis

Many of the tributes to Anne Carson, the latest Nobel prizewinner in Literature, have emphasized her fascination with the fragment. Her PhD thesis

Vindicating a model naval hero

The House of Literature in Oslo is right in the centre of the city, not far from the royal palace (it is said that the Crown Princess sometimes pops across to the literary events). Founded in 2006, in a building that was originally a teacher training ...

Reconstructing the lives of twenty-one men and women of the Norse diaspora