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Jan 31, 2025 · In this week’s TLS. Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers argues that the almost certainly homosexual American painter had an outsider’s affinity with the artistic Jewish Wertheimer family with whom he became close friends.

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 ...

Jan 24, 2025 · 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 …

Nov 15, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. Novels that make the Booker prize shortlist often get overlooked in the TLS’s Books of the Year feature.This year, however, Percival Everett’s reimagining of Huckleberry Finn, James, received more nominations than any other

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

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

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 …

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