TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The writer as thinker’ – On the novel of ideas; The age of misgovernment; Keeping up with the Camerons; Chaucer’s ambitions for English and Samuel Beckett and me…
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 25, 2025): In this week’s TLS , If all Russian writers are supposed to have come out of Gogol’s Overcoat, then “all American literature”, according to Ernest Hemingway, “comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”. James Marcus reviews Ron Chernow’s 1,200-page biography of Twain – the Great American Novel seems fated to be twinned with the Great American Door-Stopper.
How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory By Bryan Karetnyk
Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution By James Marcus
Jimmy Carter’s abrasive foreign policy adviser and rival to Henry Kissinger By Edward N. Luttwak
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 18, 2025): In this week’s TLS, Mary Beard and Margaret Drabble are not quite getting away from it all this summer. For our summer books selection, they have picked a brace of biographies of Labour prime ministers past and present. Along with Daniel Mendelsohn’s recent translation of the Odyssey, our Classics editor chooses Alan Johnson’s biography of Harold Wilson, her mother’s favourite politician. By Martin Ivens
Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading
Three teen-centric novels arrive at a time of national soul-searching
By Martin Ivens
Can the world’s dominant currency survive Donald Trump?
What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Other America’ – The Hispanic Achievement…
Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Plays for Today’ – On what makes Shakespeare great; Miracles of Siena; Conversations about Gaza; Cyber insecurity and a Letter from Greenland…
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Burning Spitit’ – On capturing Dante; Dickens’s feverish imagination…
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Many Muses’ – The women who inspired Rainer Maria Rilke; The real prime minister; Elon Musk’s big wink; The occult world of Ithell Colquhoun…
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An extraordinary woman’ = Gisele Pelicot’s dignity before a watching world; What I learnt from Athol Fugard; Caspar David Friedrich; Stalin’s don and Hitler’s royal allies…
