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TLS | November 8, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
5 days ago · 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?”. By Martin Ivens.
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Sep 13, 2024 · The archive is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Click here to learn more. The TLS Archive | More than 100 years of TLS reviews, essays and debate, featuring Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Mary Beard and more.
TLS | May 31, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
May 31, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. “When we say an author or book ‘speaks to us’”, writes Gabriel Josipovici in this week’s TLS, in a symposium that marks the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, “I think we mean we feel that they understand us even when we don’t quite understand ourselves.”. By Catharine Morris.
November 5, 2021 | The TLS
In 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.
September 3, 2021 | The TLS
Sep 3, 2021 · In this week’s TLS. John Cheever counted himself a member of a “cheerful generation” of prosperous east coast Americans in the Truman and Eisenhower years. In honour of the laureate of leafy white suburbs, swimming pools and barbecues, Time magazine duly dubbed him “Ovid in Ossining”, Ossining being his New York City dormitory home town.
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September 17, 2021 | The TLS
Judgements in stone. The two contrasting styles of Edmonia Lewis, the first African American woman sculptor. By Mary Beard.
TLS | September 23, 2022 | Book reviews, essays and more.
September 23, 2022 | TLS. In this week’s TLS. The obituarist’s art – perhaps more conspicuous since September 8 than it has been for decades – is the subject of our lead review by Nicola Shulman, who considers two collections of obituaries edited by Nigel Farndale of The Times and Andrew M. Brown of the Daily Telegraph respectively.
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