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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 …

Jan 31, 2025 · In this week’s TLS. Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers argues that the almost certainly homosexual American painter had an outsider’s …

Nov 29, 2024 · The TLS Archive | More than 100 years of TLS reviews, essays and debate, featuring Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Mary Beard and more

Jan 24, 2025 · 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 …

Nov 15, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. Novels that make the Booker prize shortlist often get overlooked in the TLS’s Books of the Year feature.This year, however, Percival Everett’s …

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 …

Oct 25, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. In Polis, Ma argues that in the “classical” period celebrated by western poets and historians, the Greek cities reached their nadir, not their peak.Vicious class …

Mar 29, 2024 · The letters of Ray Bradbury; carving up the solar system; Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-the-nation novel; the limits of consent – and much more

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 …