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A previously unpublished story by Rebecca West

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Eve’s second fall

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 11h

A memoir of a family in flight from the Nazis

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Know thyself

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 11h

The writers Dick Cavett interviewed – backstage and on air

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‘Let’s stay strangers’

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 12h

A daughter’s view of John Cheever and his fiction

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Literature, lies and life

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 17h

Sophie Oliver on Rebecca West’s struggle with her love of clothing; Robert Poole introduces us to a dashing nineteenth-century radical

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Costume dramas

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 20h

Yet another part of the ancient city of Rome has recently opened to the public. So far it’s only in small pre-booked groups – but hopefully there will be much more open access soon. This is part of the set of baths erected by the emperor Trajan in the early second-century CE (a full reconstructio...

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A new (ancient) site in Rome

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 22h

From 2024: On the formal experiments of Anne Carson, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026

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Anne Carson’s experiments in poetry and prose

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘Another hour, and the pavements will fill. / Dresses will blossom like the flower-stalls’ – Gerald Mangan

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‘Satie’

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How Wayne Thiebaud rendered the stuff of life

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The promise of things

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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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Twenty Questions with Mariana Enriquez

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have just spent a few days in Egypt – mostly business, including museums (on that, see my last post), but with time for a trip out to see some of the

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Ancient Egypt for the lazy

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a preview of what looks like a great exhibition coming up at the National Museum of Scotland: Roman Scotland: Life at the edge of the empire. It’s

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Life on the edge of the empire

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‘It's not sad. / It's bright / and clear.’ – Margaret Atwood

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‘At Brute Point’

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A history of childbirth and a defence of the C-section

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First class delivery?

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Patrick McGuinness delves into the moving and illuminating notebooks kept by Albert Camus; Elizabeth Lowry discusses the untold lives of novelist Anita Brookner

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Outsiders

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rohan Maitzen on Rose Tremain’s reimagining of Rebecca, and a new way of seeing the terrifying Mrs Danvers; Jamie McKendrick reads his poem, ‘The Importance of Time’

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Manderley Revisited

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oral histories of migrants to Britain

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New lives

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The treasures of Tutankhamun were removed from their old museum in central Cairo and splendidly re-displayed, just over a year ago, in the new Grand

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The Old Egyptian Museum in Cairo

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Contrasting biographical portraits of Jane Austen

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Boots and beastliness

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ghosts and protest in Ali Smith’s latest jeu d’esprit

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Horseplay

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am about to go on a tour of the UK and then Australia and New Zealand, partly presenting my recent book Talking Classics, partly flying the flag for the

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Circe and Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal RA

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

‘Later, at the blue window, / I advance by inches towards October’ – Penelope Shuttle

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‘Childless’

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A selection of stand-out articles worth returning to

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September 2026

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

‘Be mine into your fastnesses to stray, / Wearied, and drinking in a better day’ – Andrew Marvell

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‘Hortus’

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Toby Lichtig on the six Booker Prize hopefuls; Kathryn Hughes joins us in an exploration of feline mysteries

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The Cat’s Whiskers

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cixin Liu’s stories of wonderment and altered natural laws

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Eyes on the universe

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A family history rooted in colonial Zimbabwe

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‘Keep on running’

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Albert Camus’s notebooks; the secret life of Anita Brookner; Ukraine at war; a newly discovered story by Rebecca West; open season on Barbara Cartland; between deafness and the hearing world – and much more: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The British imagination; Trump’s whisperers; the orphan behind Oliver Twist; birds in art; Ben Lerner returns; nocturnal beauty – and much more. Out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The struggle between good and evil in William Golding’s fiction www.the-tls.com/lives/lette...

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Darkness visible

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

William Golding’s beast within; the many lives of W. H. Auden; Palantir spreads; the spirit of the Risorgimento; Ishiguro on film; experiencing consciousness – and much more. Out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The cult of Holbein; the uncertain future of reading; dreaming of Cairo; how the Bible came to be; an Orwellian dilemma – and much more. The new TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Theories of time; how Byzantium survived; Tolkien’s hobbit craft; lessons from Brexit; mastery of microbes; Faber’s full stops – and much more. Out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Games as a way of life; how Franco tried to cheat history; George Saunders’s new ghost story; Korean poets finding freedom; Dickensian women – and much more. The new issue of the TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...