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'This, Adelheid tells us, is “a Story of Blindness”, recreated from her extensive notebooks (sadly destroyed) with “Absolute Accuracy” and without any flimflam concerning “the benefit of hindsight etcetcetc”.'
Christopher Shrimpton: Pioneer or murderer? the-tls.com/literature/ficti…
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From June: @NickHoldstock on The End of Everything by M. John Harrison, the winner of @TheBookerPrizes 2026 the-tls.com/literature/ficti…
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How Athenian drama conquered a civilization the-tls.com/classics/greek/t…
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'It was somehow easier to take in such weapons in the safety of the samurai living room, rather than in the baffling expanse of battle.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard ): Samurai at the British Museum the-tls.com/regular-features…
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'Not many people are as keen as we are to pay any money at all for 1920s busts of Sappho, or nineteenth-century plaster versions of the emperor Vitellius.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard ): Our new big queen the-tls.com/regular-features…
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A selection of stand-out articles worth returning to the-tls.com/highlights/octob…
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Edgar Allan Poe’s downward trajectory the-tls.com/lives/biography/…
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The sensual aesthetics of Walter Pater the-tls.com/literature-by-re…
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Who has influenced your writing? ‘Everyone I am related to, by blood and marriage.’
Twenty Questions with Elizabeth McCracken
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What is the worst job you ever had? ‘Painting the underside of an asbestos roof in a heatwave while standing on a plank with no guard rails.’
Twenty Questions with Michael Rosen
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The struggle to reconcile women’s emancipation with caring for children the-tls.com/politics-society…
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'It won’t be long before a whole array of “Vitruvius cafés” opens nearby, offering their souvenir Vitruvius fridge magnets and tote bags.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard ): The fame of Fano?
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Inheriting Norman Lewis’s library the-tls.com/regular-features…
Inheriting Norman Lewis’s library
‘The books are a witness to his sweat and application’
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'No human being is just one way, then. And Telenovela also suggests, quietly but boldly, that no political side is wholly virtuous either.'
Lorna Scott Fox on politics, art and authenticity in Pinochet-era Chile
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'Wherever I am, when their distinctive tinkle “rings out” on my mobile, I check to see what is going on.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard ): What’s happening on your doorstep?
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Poetry as therapy, Peter Harrington’s war, The Royal Literary Fund the-tls.com/regular-features…
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Which piece of music have you listened to the most in your life? ‘The song “From Her To Eternity” by Nick Cave.’
Twenty Questions with Mariana Enriquez
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Maths and the AI shortcut the-tls.com/regular-features…
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A portrait of a legendary French figure – and a great performer the-tls.com/arts/film/de-gau…
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'Once you get going, it really is great (it’s probably my favourite book of all time). But I think classicists tend to underestimate the challenges of some of those initial barriers to enjoying it.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard ): Odyssey fever the-tls.com/regular-features…
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