TLS | Times Literary Supplement
WEBA weekly journal for literature and ideas. We publish book reviews, book extracts, essays and poems by leading writers from around the world. Each week, we also review the latest in fiction, film, opera, theatre, dance, radio and television.
TLS | October 11, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
WEBPoor Cyril Tourneur. This didactic writer of the early 1600s was once regarded as the author of The Revenger’s Tragedy, a mighty work of its kind – and Tourneur therefore figured (in the words of Harold Jenkins) as “one of the most fiery and energetic imaginations possessed by any Elizabethan writer”. By Michael Caines.
Welcome to the TLS
WEBWelcome to the world’s leading magazine for culture and new ideas. Since 1902, we have been publishing expert reviews and insightful, sometimes provocative essays by the best writers from around the world. We cover everything from The Tempest to the climate crisis; little magazines to Big Tech; The Rite of Spring to the Arab Spring; Dionysus ...
Literature - The TLS
WEBLiterature. 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.
About the Times Literary Supplement - TLS
WEBAbout us. The TLS was born in January 1902. Its first ever front page bashfully stated: “during the Parliamentary session Literary Supplements to ‘The Times’ will appear as often as may be necessary in order to keep abreast with the more important publications of the day”. Fortunately, that question of necessity was not left in the ...
TLS | September 9, 2022 | Book reviews, essays and more.
WEBSep 9, 2022 · Ian McEwan and Orhan Pamuk tease out answers in their latest novels. The life of Roland Baines, the protagonist of McEwan’s Lessons, is seemingly predetermined by the results of traumatic sexual abuse in adolescence. But we are not in familiar territory charted by L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between or even McEwan’s own On Chesil Beach.
Fiction Archives - TLS
WEBOlive meets Lucy. Two long-running characters discover ‘a kindred loneliness’. By Beejay Silcox. Fiction |. Book Review.
September 3, 2021 | The TLS
WEBIn this week’s TLS. John Cheever counted himself a member of a “cheerful generation” of prosperous east coast Americans in the Truman and Eisenhower years. In honour of the laureate of leafy white suburbs, swimming pools and barbecues, Time magazine duly dubbed him “Ovid in Ossining”, Ossining being his New York City dormitory home town.
October 15, 2021 | Book reviews, essays and more. - TLS
WEBIn this week’s TLS. This week we celebrate Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibar-born, Brighton-based winner of the Nobel prize in literature. By Martin Ivens.
February 4, 2022 | The TLS
WEBFeb 4, 2022 · In this week’s TLS. The political establishment always mocked him as a “fruitcake”, but Farage had the last laugh. In his TLS review, Fintan O’Toole points out that he had some unlikely allies along the way. By Martin Ivens.
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