TLS | Times Literary Supplement
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 3, 2025 | Book reviews, essays and more.
3 days ago · In this week’s TLS. Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace rejected the “great man” theory of history, made fashionable by Thomas Carlyle. Napoleon, Cromwell and Caesar were “history’s slaves”, fulfilling the will of Providence, argued Tolstoy, not its masters.
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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 the climate crisis; little magazines to Big Tech; The Rite of Spring to the Arab Spring; Dionysus to Diane Arbus.. Every year, we review 1500 books – that’s more than the London Review of Books, Literary Review ...
TLS | December 20 / 27, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
In this week’s TLS. When Sphen the gay penguin died at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium earlier this year, his partner, Magic, led the rest of the colony in a dirge, and the keepers joined in. Was this evidence that humans and animals share a sense of loss at death?
TLS | October 25, 2024 | Book reviews, essays 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 war and 100 years of violent intercity competition and empire-building disfigured this …
TLS | November 1, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Britain under Cromwell; modern horror; Tim Winton’s eco-apocalypse; composing Anna Karenina; investigating UFOs; literary desks – and much more
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 | May 31, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
May 31, 2024 · Considering Kafka, 100 years after his death; India under Modi; the survival of Alfred Dreyfus; psychiatric problems; everyday heroics – and much more
TLS | March 29, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Mar 29, 2024 · The letters of Ray Bradbury; carving up the solar system; Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-the-nation novel; the limits of consent – and much more
TLS | October 18, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Oct 18, 2024 · 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.