Times Literary Supplement - TLS
A 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 | January 24, 2025 | Book reviews, essays and more.
3 days ago · In this week’s TLS. Can the life be separated from the work? Paying tribute to the capaciousness, depth and forensic brilliance of T. S. Eliot’s criticism in his lead review of The Collected Prose, edited by Archie Burnett, Stephen Romer argues that these volumes represent a …
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TLS | January 17, 2025 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Jan 17, 2025 · Translating Marx; two newly discovered poems by Virginia Woolf; poets and death; composite creatures; God and space – and much more.
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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 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.
Oct 4, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. 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”.
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Can the life be separated from the work? Paying tribute to the capaciousness, depth and forensic brilliance of T. S. Eliot’s criticism in his lead review of The Collected Prose, edited by Archie Burnett, Stephen Romer argues that these volumes represent a “pushback”.Two years ago the release of Eliot’s three-decade-long correspondence …
TLS | March 1, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Mar 1, 2024 · Thomas Hardy and women; Yaël Farber’s elegiac Shakespeare; Yiddish writing; Hannah Arendt for today; Canal Fiction revisited – and much more
TLS | October 18, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
In this week’s TLS. Sylvia Plath once said that “nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing”. Ted Hughes curated two editions of her prose in 1977 and 1979, but admitted that his selections represented only a fraction of her work.
TLS | June 21, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Summer Books 2024; Isherwood's inspiration; fine-art fraud; Nasser's legacy; feminism and Morris dancing – and much more
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