Muriel Zagha reviews Marriage Story and considers a few other deserving/undeserving films either lauded or ignored by this year's awards panels; a clip from an interview with Francesca Wade, the author of Square Haunting: Five women, freedom and London between the wars (you'll find the full interview in your podcast feed); this month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Anne Brontë, the sister whose reputation has been slowest to blossom but who, according to Samantha Ellis, was the most radical and modern of them all
Sanam Maher looks at how Muslim women are viewed in the West; Claire Lowdon finds puzzles and philosophy but no pleasure in J. M. Coetzee's recent work; Alan Jenkins explains the significance of the recently opened archive of T. S. Eliot's letters; Jeffrey Wainwright reads his poem "If all this did begin"
Books
From Victims to Suspects: Muslim women since 9/11 by Shakira Hussein
It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race, edited by Mariam Khan
Sam Graydon grapples with quantum physics and the subatomic world; Elaine Showalter considers the 'startlingly racy, contradictory, emblematic' E. Nesbit, the 'first modern writer for children'; Which out-of-print books should be back in circulation and why? Roz Dineen presents the results of a TLS symposium
Books
Six Impossible Things: The ‘quanta of solace’ and the mysteries of the subatomic world, by John Gribbin
Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The search for what lies beyond the quantum, by Lee Smolin
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘The Railway Children’, by Eleanor Fitzsimons
The Extraordinary Life of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘Five Children and It’ and ‘The Railway Children’, by Elisabeth Galvin
TLS editors gather to consider some of the decade’s major cultural shifts and events, with specialist insights from Mary Beard on academia, Beejay Silcox on fiction and Zoe Williams on gender
Go to the-tls.co.uk for the full twelve-page retrospective.
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