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WEBA weekly journal for literature and ideas. We publish book reviews, book extracts, essays and poems by leading writers from around the world. Each week, we also review the latest in fiction, film, opera, theatre, dance, radio and television.
TLS | October 4, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
WEBOct 4, 2024 · Poor Cyril Tourneur. This didactic writer of the early 1600s was once regarded as the author of The Revenger’s Tragedy, a mighty work of its kind – and Tourneur therefore figured (in the words of Harold Jenkins) as “one of the most fiery and energetic imaginations possessed by any Elizabethan writer”. By Michael Caines.
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WEBLiterature. Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath, Murakami, Jane Austen and James Baldwin, metaphysical poets and the Bloomsbury set, New Criticism and post-colonialism: in essays and reviews, our writers assess the latest fiction in English and in translation, and explore poetry, prose and criticism from across the world and across the centuries.
TLS | October 4, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
WEBOct 4, 2024 · Poor Cyril Tourneur. This didactic writer of the early 1600s was once regarded as the author of The Revenger’s Tragedy, a mighty work of its kind – and Tourneur therefore figured (in the words of Harold Jenkins) as “one of the most fiery and energetic imaginations possessed by any Elizabethan writer”. By Michael Caines.
The Archive | TLS | More than 100 years of TLS reviews
WEBAugust 2, 2024. No. 6331. , reviewed by Andrew Solomon, reveals that one fifth of American students were diagnosed with depre... July 26, 2024. No. 6330. “The most common and destructive form of conflict is civil war”, writes Brian Holden Reid in his review of the latest edition of. July 19, 2024.
The Island by Nicholas Jenkins | Book review | The TLS
WEBSnatches of tramline running to the wood, An industry already comatose, Yet sparsely living. Auden depicts a landscape of fissures and rifts, and, as Jenkins says well, manages to make them real geological features as well as “rifts in the poet’s own psyche, and the divisions within English culture”. The poem is the first achieved example ...
About the Times Literary Supplement - TLS
WEBAbout us. The TLS was born in January 1902. Its first ever front page bashfully stated: “during the Parliamentary session Literary Supplements to ‘The Times’ will appear as often as may be necessary in order to keep abreast with the more important publications of the day”. Fortunately, that question of necessity was not left in the ...
November 5, 2021 | The TLS
WEBIn this week’s TLS. Claire Tomalin’s new biography, The Young H. G. Wells, limits itself to “the roller-coaster” narrative of the writer’s earlier years before the First World War. By Martin Ivens.
February 4, 2022 | The TLS
WEBFeb 4, 2022 · In this week’s TLS. The political establishment always mocked him as a “fruitcake”, but Farage had the last laugh. In his TLS review, Fintan O’Toole points out that he had some unlikely allies along the way. By Martin Ivens.
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