This week’s The TLS, featuring Michele Pridmore-Brown on fatherhood; Luke Warde on Babyn Yar; Catherine Taylor on E. Nesbit; Toby Lichtig on The Constituent; Wendy Law-Yone on railways in Myanmar; Rebecca Heisman on Audubon; Regina Rini on commemoration – and more

This week’s The TLS, featuring Larry Wolff on Venice; Max Alexander on Ozempic; Diane Mehta on Delmore Schwartz; Walker Mimms on the Harlem Renaissance; John Phipps on Michael Volpe; Lily on Tiffany Murray; Georgina Wilson on absences in literature – and more

This week’s The TLS, featuring Edward N Luttwak on war; 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲-𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 and Oliver Balch on Wales; Miranda France on awkwardness; Mia Levitin on Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Will Tosh on queer lexicography; poems by Sam Riviere, Fiona Benson, Camille Francois and Christopher Reid – and more

There are just a few tickets left for the TLS Ackerley Prize ceremony in London on 25 July. £5 for wine, music plus the ceremony. Details here tinyurl.com/bdf4sr67 The TLS 'twill be a great occasion!

I loved reviewing this for The TLS : a learned, wide-ranging history of sexuality and the English dictionary by Stephen Turton the-tls.co.uk/languages-llng…

V happy to make the front page of this week's The TLS, discussing Jessica Jessica Hooten Wilson's reworking of #FlanneryOConnor's final, unpublished novel, 'Why do the Heathen Rage?' the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

This week’s The TLS, featuring Andrew Solomon on childhood today; Daniel Johnson on Elias Canetti; Will Hutton on Britain’s economic future; Madeleine Feeny on Layla Martínez; Nessa Carey on RNA; M. C. on the NYT ‘100 Best’ list – and more

For this week's The TLS, I wrote a little column about how ancient people went to the desert to become perfect, then discovered the limits of perfection. the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

Congratulations to Catherine Taylor winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize.

ICYMI: my review of I've Been Thinking - Daniel Dennett’s final book ⁦The TLS⁩ the-tls.co.uk/philosophy/con…

This week’s The TLS, featuring Philip Ball and Simone Gubler on AI; anne mcelvoy on the far-right in Germany; Michael Gorra on Henry James; Sophie Oliver on Judy Chicago; Ben Bollig on Mariana Enríquez; Jonathan Drummond on cats; Regina Rini on J. D. Vance – and more

this month in The TLS , I consider the role of philosophy in creating an internet troll on the verge of power the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

This week’s The TLS, featuring Dinah Birch on William Morris; Rana Mitter on the West; Dr Mary Wellesley on Chaucer; Claire Lowdon on Evie Wyld; Rosemary Waugh on Annie Ernaux’s The Years on stage; Anna Aslanyan on maps; M. C. on the Booker longlist – and more

For The TLS, I wrote about Sara B. Franklin's biography of Judith Jones, 'The Editor' Atria Books the-tls.co.uk/lives/biograph…

This week’s The TLS, featuring Diarmaid MacCulloch on Tudor and Stuart espionage; owen matthews on cold wars past and present; Tom Cook on Shakespearean sexualities; Fiona Green on Emily Dickinson’s letters; Anna Katharina Schaffner on the Rhine; Suzi Feay on Gayl Jones – and more

I greatly enjoyed reviewing @Will_Tosh’s new study of Shakespeare’s sexuality – a sharp and provocative sort-of biography – for this week’s issue of @theTLS. Available to read here: the-tls.co.uk/arts/theatre/s…

A summer double of The TLS, featuring C. K. Stead & Kirsty Gunn on Janet Frame; Joe Moran on sleep science; an extract from Will Eaves’s new book; Clive Stafford Smith on prison; Peter Kemp on Pat Barker; Praya Agarwal on hypochondria; Irina Dumitrescu on literary reputations – and more

I have now - possibly stupidly - said what I think about McGough and his Collected - the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe…

This week’s The TLS, featuring Seth Whidden on Baudelaire; Ben Street on Nicholson Baker; Hettie Judah on Rose Boyt; Boyd Tonkin on Women Impressionists; Kieran Setiya; @ksetiya.bsky.social on stand-up; the discovery of a new Euripides papyrus – and more