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4 days ago · In this week’s TLS. In this week’s TLS, A. N. Wilson diagnoses Hope, Pope Francis’s autobiography, as a “riposte to his virulent opponents within the Church”.But the book is “as …

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Oct 4, 2024 · In this week’s TLS. Poor Cyril Tourneur. This didactic writer of the early 1600s was once regarded as the author of The Revenger’s Tragedy, a mighty work of its kind – and …

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 …

Mar 1, 2024 · Thomas Hardy and women; Yaël Farber’s elegiac Shakespeare; Yiddish writing; Hannah Arendt for today; Canal Fiction revisited – and much more

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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 …

Baudelaire is not just the first great urban poet to capture fleeting modernity, writes Seth Whidden in his review of a new edition of Baudelaire’s Œuvres complètes, published by Gallimard – “he …

“Viva il Papa!”, somebody shouted at the Vatican on Saturday, after the handle of Pope Francis’s walking stick broke and he stumbled. But such warm sentiments are, as we know, far from …