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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 book is “as much a political as a religious polemic”, he notes

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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

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”.

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

Nov 8, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. Contemplating his likely end, Vladimir Putin’s gadfly opponent Alexei Navalny joked that his memoir, Patriot (reviewed by Wendy Slater), was bound to be a bestseller – “The book’s author has been murdered by a villainous president; what more could the marketing department ask for?”

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 …

Nov 29, 2024 · Gaugin uncensored; Angela Merkel’s triumph and tragedy; C. S. Lewis’s Oxford; The Magic Mountain at 100; Mary Beard on Gladiator II – and much 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