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The latest @TheTLS reviews @michaelshermer's Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters. "...Shermer’s confidence is bracing, and it is refreshing to encounter an epistemology so confident in its assertions." Out now from @JHUPress. the-tls.com/philosophy/truth…

Democracy in peril

Free speech, truth and the death of discourse

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I reviewed Aea Varfis-Van Warmelo's excellent debut novel ATTENTION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR in the new edition of @TheTLS the-tls.com/literature/ficti…

Only align

The gulf between word and deed in the digital age

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For @TheTLS, I dived into the labyrinths of the multiple personalities of Fernando Pessoa. the-tls.com/literature/liter…

Pastoral sympathy

Fernando Pessoa’s pagan alter ego

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My review of 'Osprey' by John Lister-Kaye | Book review | The TLS the-tls.com/regular-features… @TheTLS @ExeterCollegeOx

Crashing raptors

Transformative encounters with Scottish ospreys

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The mighty @TheTLS turns 125 in January, and we're celebrating in style. Join us on Jan 30th at the @southbankcentre for a special event with @wmarybeard, Paul Muldoon, Gwendoline Riley and Ben Markovits. It'll be a literary night to remember. Tix here: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-…
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Correcting myths about Sylvia Plath; Beckett in Nazi Germany; the end of free trade; Spinoza and slavery; ​Marlon James in 1980s Jamaica –​ and much more.⁠ ⁠ The edition of the TLS is out now: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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Death and medical ethics; revisiting John Berger; AI and the death of the author; Robert Harris takes on Agrippa; ​speech as toxin –​ and much more. The new issue of the TLS is out now: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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Arthur and his legends; British corruption; James Joyce’s political views; Empson and Woolf; Frida Kahlo, iconized; alien sightings – and much more. This issue of the TLS is out now: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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When the Romans left; realism and US foreign policy; prisoners’ favourite books; Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’; writers betrayed by readers – and much more. Out now: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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The awesome, mysterious work of Emily Brontë; silence in literature; Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy concludes; existential tough love; Toni Morrison’s complex style – and much more. Out now: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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Iran vs America; Allen Ginsberg at 100; revealing Shakespeare’s politics; poets and suicide; sonnet-mania – and much more the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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Summer books 2026; ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ reconsidered; the Declaration of Independence at 250; how football sold itself; woes of the reviewers – and much more. Out now: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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We are delighted to share the shortlist for this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize, judged by @PParkerwriting @michaelscaines @claire_harman The winner will be announced at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, on July 23. Tickets available here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/tls-acker…
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Great to be asked to review four fascinating books on nuclear history for the current issue of @TheTLS. Link in reply…
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A review by David Attenborough of Tom Phillips’s African Goldweights, published in the TLS of July 23, 2010 the-tls.com/regular-features…

Unwise to rub bottoms with a porcupine

A review by David Attenborough of Tom Phillips’s African Goldweights, published in the TLS of July 23, 2010.

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Inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize winner Peter Filkins joins @TheTLS's Toby Lichtig and prize judges to discuss the art of translation and his interpretation of Elias Canetti's The Book Against Death. 🎬 Coming this week to the JLF Video Player: shorturl.at/SvRkP
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Knowing like mad: Jeremy Noel-Tod on the poetry and criticism of J. H. Prynne, who died yesterday, at the age of eighty-nine the-tls.com/literature/poetr…

The poetry and criticism of J. H. Prynne

The poetry and criticism of J. H. Prynne (1936–2026)

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The many faces of Shakespeare; being Jan Morris; how elephants communicate; Deborah Levy and Gertrude Stein; Japan’s demographic crisis; AI reviewing – and much more: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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'It has a major Roman collection from Hadrian’s Wall (it’s easy to forget that Carlisle was directly on the Wall and there is a great visible tract of it nearby at Birdoswald).' Mary Beard (@wmarybeard): For the eternally curious the-tls.com/regular-features…

For the eternally curious

I have been in Carlisle, visiting Tullie and giving a talk on the theme of one of their current temporary exhibitions, Gladiators of Britain: a touring

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'In my first years at King’s, Averil (along with Carlotta Dionisotti) taught me how to be a professional academic and how, especially, to thrive, or manage, as a woman in the academy.' Mary Beard (@wmarybeard): Averil Cameron the-tls.com/regular-features…

Averil Cameron

My old friend and colleague Averil Cameron died this week, aged eighty-six. (I heard of her death immediately before I received my prize in Frankfurt on

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