The publication of the complete Granada trilogy, by the Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour (1946–2014), in Kay Heikkinen’s vivid and elegant translation, is a ...

It is easy, in this country, to keep returning to the question of Britishness, nosing and prodding it in a desultory canine fashion, surveying it fully before thinking of discarding ...

In 1989, Samuel Beckett was asked by the Sunday Telegraph to name his book of the year. His response: “Away from reading all year long. Mere odds and ends here ...

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Chinese students in the US Sir, – In response to Sheng Yun’s praise of the Chinese crammer school education system (January 20), I would argue that one example of a ...

Martin Rowson, cartoonist for the Guardian and elsewhere, joins us to discuss caricature as political hit-job; the TLS’s Arts editor Lucy Dallas considers the jolly japes and scrapes of the Beano, as ...

This issue is the first in the TLS’s nearly 120 years of existence to have been edited and sent off to press by a group of people contributing solely from their own homes. Remote working is not so ...

Authorship is a singular business, or is usually thought to be so. We reckon that there are practical justifications for writers’ supposed preference for working alone – although there are also some ...

This week the TLS celebrates Black and Asian British writing. Two of our reviewers, however, have their reservations about the enterprise. Paul Mendez argues in his cover feature that The Cambridge ...

Holland’s Hunger Winter, Role-playing Bröntes, Labyrinths, etc ...

Black Friday at the secondhand bookshops of London was reassuringly civilized. At Peter Ellis in Cecil Court we had no need to shoulder Scandanavian bargain-hunters aside in order to grab ...

The re-evaluation of long-term relationships can lead to striking reappraisals of their value. James Campbell has returned to the re- issued works of Henry Miller in order to take stock ...