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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 3h
'There she collects fluoro paper in Soho art shops, goes surreal with model penguins, hires Boy George as a live exhibit.'

Libby Purves on Mary Portas at ‘Harvey Nicks’
Mary Portas at ‘Harvey Nicks’
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 9h
'It happens I’ve lost faith in the flower / pinned to this or that lapel.'

So It Goes by Howard Altmann
So It Goes
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 22h
'America is not just an idea. It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future.'

Bill McKibben: A reactionary radical’s case against progress
A reactionary radical’s case against progress
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 1d
'Reciprocal transmission may happen through contact either direct or via intermediaries, or at a remove, when anthropogenic environmental changes make habitats less healthy.'

Harriet Ritvo on the transmission of diseases between animals and humans
How to stop making ourselves and other animals sick
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 1d
'Here are the sentences cadenced with Didionesque rhythms and repetitions. Here are the snakes slithering through the California lawns.'

Michael Frank on Joan Didion’s raw response to her daughter’s suffering
A child in trouble
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 1d
'Because Segal is so good at what she does, her one story contains multitudes.'

Heather Cass White: A reissued novel of 1950s America has echoes in the present
Back to the bughouse
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 2d
'Dunne has an instinct for getting someone to open up: a stand-up comedian, a sex worker, a private detective.'

Lily Herd on oddballs of Las Vegas
‘Disneyland with lights’
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 2d
Harry Cochrane on the stuttering simplicity of an unexpected form
Making a spectacle
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 2d
'This may be Allen’s shrewdest move as a novelist: inline manuscript flattery that has pre-empted any editorial work whatsoever on the book itself.'

Randy Boyagoda on Woody Allen’s debut novel
Framed in prose
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 2d
'Claire-Louise Bennett is a true original, working at the brink of what language can do.'

Annie McDermott: Love, sex and friendship for a ‘high priestess of isolation’
The space between us
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 2d
'An old problem: how to write about boredom without being too boring, or confusion without being too confusing?'

Claire Lowdon on an attempted ‘masterpiece’ about being confused
Pineapple chunks
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 2d
Dominic Leonard on a corrective vision of rurality
Nightmare pastoral
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 3d
László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Reviewing A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East, M. John Harrison praised the author's 'precision and care and sleight-of-hand'
Geometry, precision, perfection in ‘a little object of meditation’
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 3d
Where do you seek refuge? ‘In writing. It’s the only place of refuge that never seems to let me down.’

Twenty Questions with Jonathan Coe
Twenty Questions with Jonathan Coe
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 3d
'The fact that The Four Spent the Day Together is at the same time so formally inventive stands as further testament to her skill and audacity as a writer.'

Nina Allan on a ‘cumulative’ novel of American deficit
All in the selection
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 3d
'You can take away the man’s livelihood and his belly might be knocking on his backbone, but you can’t take away his style.'

Colin Grant on the film that introduced the world to reggae, on stage
Social history in musical form
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 3d
'It is, in other words, a zany detective story, Raymond Chandler refracted through Busby Berkeley.'

James Marcus on Thomas Pynchon’s haunted vision of history
The Puritan reflex
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 4d
Matilda Sykes: Poems on the staggering course of life
Loss articulated
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 4d
'This attempt to decentralize human experience in theatre aligns Cow | Deer with “deep ecology”, a philosophy that has growing influence on systemic approaches to the planetary emergency.'

Amber Massie-Blomfield on theatre that invites us to listen
Noises on
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 4d
'There is nothing to do today but weave / between the fruit and the thorn, / to gather as much colour as possible.'

Hawthorn by Malene Engelund
Hawthorn
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 4d
'Posterity is more likely to remember Holbrook as possibly the only person to have visited George Orwell on the Hebridean island of Jura and left an unfavourable account.'

D. J. Taylor: Trial by Jura
Trial by Jura
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 5d
'They have an exciting duet in the first act as they imagine their superhero, and exclaim in harmony: “He is the Escapist!”.'

Larry Wolff on Michael Chabon’s novel of superheroes and villains reborn as opera
Escape artists
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 5d
Colm McKenna on the ironies of living forever
Burdensome eternity
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 5d
'As the Kremlin tightened its grip, they narrowed their horizons to a “reservation” of Moscow cafes and editorial offices.'

Howard Amos: How Vladimir Putin divided a generation
The price of opposition
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 5d
'Everywhere you look: checkpoints. / Everywhere you look: barbed wire.'

“Song of peace” | 태평가 by Suji Kwock Kim
“Song of peace” | 태평가
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