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6 days ago · In this week’s TLS. Capital joins the list of monumental works that are “very famous and almost unknown”, writes Jonathan Rée in his review of a new English translation by Paul Reitter, edited by Paul North and Reitter. That was certainly my student experience.
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6 days ago · Translating Marx; two newly discovered poems by Virginia Woolf; poets and death; composite creatures; God and space – and much more.
TLS | March 1, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Mar 1, 2024 · Thomas Hardy and women; Yaël Farber’s elegiac Shakespeare; Yiddish writing; Hannah Arendt for today; Canal Fiction revisited – and much more
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Collection. Literature. Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath, Murakami, Jane Austen and James Baldwin, metaphysical poets and the Bloomsbury set, New Criticism and post-colonialism: in essays and reviews, our writers assess the latest fiction in English and in translation, and explore poetry, prose and criticism from across the world and across the centuries
TLS | June 21, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
Summer Books 2024; Isherwood's inspiration; fine-art fraud; Nasser's legacy; feminism and Morris dancing – and much more
In this week’s TLS
Can the life be separated from the work? Paying tribute to the capaciousness, depth and forensic brilliance of T. S. Eliot’s criticism in his lead review of The Collected Prose, edited by Archie Burnett, Stephen Romer argues that these volumes represent a “pushback”.Two years ago the release of Eliot’s three-decade-long correspondence …
The TLS Books of the Year 2024: Our contributors decide
Nov 15, 2024 · Visit the Times Bookshop to purchase the books below. DAVID ABULAFIA. In Courage and Compassion: A Jewish boyhood in German-occupied Greece (Berghahn), Tony Molho, a celebrated historian of Renaissance Italy, traces his journeys as a small boy hidden from the Nazis in Salonika and Athens.This unforgettable book is also an account of human kindness, of ordinary people risking their safety by ...