Declan Ryan (@DeclanRBoxing) on lessons in music from the self-proclaimed ‘king of analogue’ the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

'Even after Choltitz had surrendered, snipers kept firing from rooftops. Nobody could be sure whether they were the hard-right militia that supported the Vichy government, or German soldiers.' Julian Wright on the liberation of Paris the-tls.co.uk/history/twenti…

Discovering a new Euripides papyrus | Essay | Bill Allan | The TLS the-tls.co.uk/classics/greek… For more info on this amazing discovery see Gehad, Gibert & Trnka-Amrhein & full text, see the most recent issue of Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik ( in English)

'Drawing provides the intimacy he has been searching for.' Ben Street (Ben Street) on Nicholson Baker’s memoir of learning to draw and paint the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-ar…

'For Don, the significance of his garden is inseparable from the presence there of Nigel and the other dogs.' David E. Cooper on the importance of pets to our lives the-tls.co.uk/lives/autobiog…

'It matters, he feels, that churches are living, working buildings.' Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a lyrical, whimsical, elegiac journey round the holy buildings and sites of Britain the-tls.co.uk/religion/relig…

'The horror is that, since both sides tend to measure their advances in terms of the setbacks to the other, they might each regard themselves as winners rather than losers.' Tony Klug on the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians the-tls.co.uk/history/twenti…

'Familial context has smothered Boyt precisely at the moments when she should have been celebrated for her own creative achievements.' Hettie Judah (Hettie Judah): Lucian Freud’s daughter recalls their complex relationship the-tls.co.uk/lives/autobiog…

'At first, the old man walking below our terrace / with a box the size of himself seems a nobody. / But paint him white and he’s a priest of Badalona / come to bless us.' 'Passeig de Gracia' by John Poch the-tls.co.uk/literature/ori…

'Our expanding evidence for the lost plays challenges our preconceptions by taking us beyond the canon of extant tragedies and has the potential to reinvigorate our understanding of tragedy.' Bill Allan on discovering a new Euripides papyrus the-tls.co.uk/classics/greek…

The complete Baudelaire; women of the French avant garde; John le Carré on stage; a Euripides discovery; animals at play – and much more. This week’s TLS is out now: the-tls.co.uk/issues/current…

'As with so much in these women’s work, art conceals art.' Boyd Tonkin on four nineteenth-century female artists of the French avant-garde the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-ar…

Poem of the Week: ‘Everyone will be there’ by Kathryn Bevis the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

'It is obvious from the outset that not everything is as it seems in this game of bluff, double bluff and triple bluff.' Jim Keaveney on the first stage adaptation of a John le Carré novel the-tls.co.uk/arts/theatre/t…

Sophie Ratcliffe: Reflections on literature’s capacity to ‘power our lives’ the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

'Gabriel escapes and, moments later (William Boyd is a master of quick transitions), we are in Léopoldville in the newly independent Congo in 1960.' Giles Foden on lies, intrigue and male crisis in 1960s Léopoldville and London the-tls.co.uk/literature/fic…

'Despite, or perhaps because of, the nervous political situation, there are endless balls, banquets, salons and suchlike, at which people waft around talking epigramatically about the issues of the day.' Keith Miller (Keith Miller) on Salvador Dalí... the-tls.co.uk/literature/fic…

‘They used to leave their stilettos by the door / As I recall, coming in barefoot to my study’ ‘Pussycats’ by Miles Burrows the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

'There have been many classically inspired graphic-narrative renderings of ancient myths and history. Classicists like to claim that these were adumbrated in antiquity itself.' Edith Hall on Euripides as seen by a poet and a comic-book illustrator the-tls.co.uk/classics/the-t…