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Feb 7, 2025 · In this week’s TLS. In this week’s TLS, A. N. Wilson diagnoses Hope, Pope Francis’s autobiography, as a “riposte to his virulent opponents within the Church”.But the …

Since 1902, we have been publishing expert reviews and insightful, sometimes provocative essays by the best writers from around the world. We cover everything from The Tempest to …

Mar 1, 2024 · Thomas Hardy and women; Yaël Farber’s elegiac Shakespeare; Yiddish writing; Hannah Arendt for today; Canal Fiction revisited – and much more

Feb 7, 2025 · Pope Francis in his own words; the immodest Benjamin Franklin; stories from Gaza; Eimear McBride returns; Cold War pen pals – and much more

Collection. Literature. Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath, Murakami, Jane Austen and James Baldwin, metaphysical poets and the Bloomsbury set, New Criticism and post-colonialism: in essays …

Dec 13, 2024 · The TLS Archive | More than 100 years of TLS reviews, essays and debate, featuring Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Mary Beard and more

Oct 25, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. In Polis, Ma argues that in the “classical” period celebrated by western poets and historians, the Greek cities reached their nadir, not their peak.Vicious class …

If, as Adam Smith observed, there is a great deal of ruin in a nation, is there a great deal of ruin in ruins? Perhaps not. “Without human inter­vention”, writes the TLS’s Mary Beard in her review …

Stephen Romer’s bibliographical description of T. S. Eliot’s four-volume Collected Prose (January 24) doesn’t leave him much space to deal with le vrai Eliot at its core, but he almost gets there …