TLS | October 4, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
WEB3 days ago · The image on our cover this week is Bernini’s “The Ecstasy of St Teresa”, a masterpiece of sculpture in which the sacred and sensual are thrillingly combined. The piece was inspired by the writings of the sixteenth-century mystic Teresa of Ávila, in particular a passage in which she has a vision of a beautiful angel who penetrates her ...
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WEBAugust 2, 2024. No. 6331. , reviewed by Andrew Solomon, reveals that one fifth of American students were diagnosed with depre... July 26, 2024. No. 6330. “The most common and destructive form of conflict is civil war”, writes Brian Holden Reid in his review of the latest edition of. July 19, 2024.
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WEBTempering the death drive. Rachel Kushner’s philosophical thriller about how to navigate a random, violent world. By Rozalind Dineen. Fiction |. Book Review.
TLS | August 23 / 30, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
WEBIn this week’s TLS. Our weekly NB columnist has a longstanding scepticism about the value of literary prizes: but if Janet Frame had not received the Hubert Church Memorial prize for her first volume of short stories, The Lagoon (1951), she would have been lobotomized and a remarkable literary talent would have been lost. By Robert Potts.
TLS | June 7, 2024 | Book reviews, essays and more.
WEBJun 7, 2024 · From the comfort of our armchairs we delight in reading about the deeds of explorers. “Most humans”, writes Felipe Fernández-Armesto in his review of Raimund J. Schulz’s To the Ends of the Earth, “evidently resemble our fellow primates in resisting the allure of unfamiliar climes”. By Martin Ivens.
December 10, 2021 | The TLS
WEBDecember 10, 2021 | TLS. In this week’s TLS. Told the shocking news that she had been secretly described by her lifelong partner Gertrude Stein as “a liar of the most sordid unillumined undramatic unimaginative prostitute type, coward, ungenerous, conscienceless, mean, vulgarly triumphant and remorseless, caddish, in short just plain low”, Alice B. Toklas heaved an immense sigh of relief
November 5, 2021 | The TLS
WEBIn this week’s TLS. Claire Tomalin’s new biography, The Young H. G. Wells, limits itself to “the roller-coaster” narrative of the writer’s earlier years before the First World War. By Martin Ivens.
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