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A "new" ending to a Nabokov novel and the unregarded first volume of Vasily Grossman's epic, the "Soviet War and Peace"; Rebecca Reich guides us through these and the question of whether the West is paranoid about Russia or vice versa; Laura Freeman joins us to talk about dinner with the Durrells and pond life sandwiches.
Books
Stalingrad: A novel by Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff
Plots against Russia by Eliot Borenstein
The Russia Anxiety by Mark B. Smith
Dining with the Durrells by David Shimwell
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If capitalism is broken, can it be fixed? And can it save the environment? Joseph E. Stiglitz discusses; as we mark seventy-five years since the D-Day landings, William Boyd considers a brilliant new "worm's-eye view" of historical events; a decade after leaving academia for the "wilderness of writing", Stephen Marche returns to report on the troubled field of the humanities
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the new anxieties by Paul Collier
Capitalism: The future of an illusion by Fred L. Block
Money and Government: A challenge to mainstream economics by Robert Skidelsky
Normandy ’44: D-Day and the battle for France by James Holland
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Anna Katharina Schaffner on the cultural history of fat and fat phobia; the TLS's travel editor Catharine Morris on why Paris will always be disappointing, the solitude of open spaces, and the problem with "Victor" the archetypal travel writer; an extract from the 2019 Man Booker International prize-winning Celestial Bodies by Jokha al-Harthi, read by the novel's translator Marilyn Booth
Books
Fat: A cultural history of the stuff of life by Christopher E. Forth
The Truth About Fat by Anthony Warner
Fearing the Black Body: The racial origins of fat phobia by Sabrina Strings
We’ll Never Have Paris, edited by Andrew Gallix
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Heida: A shepherd at the edge of the world by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir and Heiða Ásgeirsdóttír, translated by Philip Roughton
Where the Hornbeam Grows: A journey in search of a garden by Beth Lynch
The Cambridge History of Travel Writing, edited by Nandini Das and Tim Youngs
Celestial Bodies by Jokha al-Harthi, translated by Marilyn Booth
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To mark the bicentenary of Queen Victoria's birth, the TLS's history editor David Horspool guides us through all manner of Victorian matters, including the Widow of Windsor's mastery of soft power, how different things might have been had she been born a boy, how the Victorians amused themselves, and the Rebecca Riots; we also have a symposium in this week's paper, asking writers and thinkers – including Steven Pinker and Bernardine Evaristo – to tell us about the important books from their childhoods. To discuss this – and to share our own youthful reading – we're joined in the studio by a [insert collective noun here] of TLS editors
Go to www.the-tls.co.uk/ to read a selection of articles from our Victorian special issue, and much more.
Our symposium was prompted by an initiative – Books To Inspire – launched by Hay Festival Wales, aiming to compile a crowd-sourced list of titles to inspire the next generation. Find out more at hayfestival.com
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The comedian and writer Helen Lederer joins us to discuss gender and comedy and the new Comedy Women In Print Prize; Lucy Dallas considers a clutch of novels in which animals might offer a little respite from human company; the TLS’s philosophy editor Tim Crane guides us through the riches of this week’s philosophy issue, including how the advent of biological immortality might augur “the greatest inequality experienced in all human history” and what happened when Michel Foucault took LSD in Death Valley
To Leave with the Reindeer by Olivia Rosenthal, translated by Sophie Lewis
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste del Amo, translated by Frank Wynne
The Animal Gazer by Edgardo Franzosini, translated by Michael F. Moore
“The last mortals: why we are especially unfortunate to die, when our near-descendants could be immortal", by Regini Rini – see this week’s TLS (in print and online)
Foucault in California: A true story, wherein the great French philosopher drops acid in the Valley of Death by Simeon Wade
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Robert Macfarlane joins us to discuss our "peculiar times", the memory of ice, and the world beneath out feet; Margie Orford brings our attention to South Africa at a crucial moment in its history, twenty-five years since the first democratic election and as another makes its mark; Nicola Shulman offers a new theory about race in Disney's original Dumbo, from 1941
Underland: A deep time journey by Robert Macfarlane
The Café de Move-on Blues: In search of the new South Africa by Christopher Hope
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As Avengers: Endgame is released, Roz Kaveney sweeps us through the shifting cast of superheroes and, latterly, heroines that populate the Marvel Universe, considers the evolving politics of the comic-book film, and answers the question on (some) people's lips: "but why...?"; Imogen Russell Williams's introduces some of the best writing on LGBTQ themes for children and young adults
Avengers: Endgame
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Julian Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Aalfred and Aalbert by Morag Hood
Death in the Spotlight by Robin Stevens
Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by L. C. Rosen
Proud: Stories, poetry and art on the theme of pride, compiled by Juno Dawson
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Ruth Scurr on the master biographer Robert A. Caro, whose subjects include Robert Moses, Lyndon B. Johnson and, now, himself; Dmitri Levitin talks us through Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, an eccentric and often inaccurate guide to early thinkers; Why bother with literary criticism? Whither this generation's Lionel Trilling? Michael LaPointe joins us to discuss
Working: Researching, interviewing, writing by Robert A. Caro
American Audacity: In defense of literary daring by William Giraldi
Hater: On the virtues of utter disagreeability by John Semley
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, translated by Pamela Mensch
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There is only one author to whom the TLS devotes an issue every year: William Shakespeare. Michael Caines talks us through the latest theories, research and reviews; Ian McEwan discusses his new novel, Machines Like Me
‘Still a giddy neighbour’ – Shakespeare’s parish in the 1590s, by Geoffrey Marsh, the TLS
The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of interpretation in Renaissance England, edited by Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole
Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in longing, by Claire McEachern
Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama, by Lieke Stelling
What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee that made Shakespeare, by Andrew McConnell Stott
Shakespeare’s Rise to Cultural Prominence: Politics, print and alteration, 1642–1700, by Emma Depledge
Shakespeare: The theatre of our world, by Peter Conrad
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Cape)
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Shauneen Lambe on ephibiphobia, fear of the teenager, and why we get youth justice wrong; Alice Bloch considers new possibilities at the frontiers of sex and robotics; George Berridge explains why now is the time to take out shares in the novelist Max Porter
Why Children Follow Rules: Legal socialization and the development of legitimacy by Tom R. Tyler and Rick Trinkner
James Garbarino
Miller’s Children: Why giving teenage killers a second chance matters for all of us by James Garbarino
Turned On: Science, sex and robots by Kate Devlin
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter, adapted by Enda Walsh (Barbican Theatre, before heading to New York)
Lanny by Max Porter
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Anna Picard discusses the problems of subject matter and sensationalism in the new opera Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel; Anna Vaux talks us through the Bauhaus school and its global influence, as well as Lucian Freud's compulsion to create and control
Books
Jack the Ripper:The Women of Whitechapel by Iain Bell, ENO, until April 12
Walter Gropius: Visionary founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
Josef Albers: Life and work by Charles Darwent
Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford
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Richard Fortey takes us on an energetic sprint through 65 million years of Europe's complex biological history; David Robey introduces the life and work of Emilio Salgari, the Italian Rider Haggard; Ella Baron, the TLS's regular cartoonist, discusses her work, including this week's European cover.
Books
Europe: A natural history by Tim Flannery
Emilio Salgari: Una mitologia moderna tra letteratura, politica, società (volumes I and II) by Ann Lawson Lucas
Ella Baron's work will be exhibited at Christie's in London, from April 5 to 10
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Carol Tavris considers new approaches to the old problem of old age (and the newer problem of old old age); as secularism wanes on the global scale, Rupert Shortt considers whether religion does more harm than good
Books
Bolder: Making the most of our longer lives by Carl Honoré
Borrowed Time: The science of how and why we age by Sue Armstrong
Retirement and Its Discontents: Why we won’t stop working, even if we can by Michelle Pannor Silver
Women Rowing North: Navigating life’s currents and flourishing as we age by Mary Pipher
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, gravity and getting old by Parker J. Palmer
This Chair Rocks: A manifesto against ageism by Ashton Applewhite
Does Religion do More Harm than Good? by Rupert Shortt
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“What we often forget in the daily drumbeat of abuses by the dominant tech companies is our complicity in these abuses, and in the fundamental and unsettling ways the internet has changed every one of us.”
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enters its seventieth anniversary, Dave Eggers, in the 2018 PEN H. G. Wells lecture, argues that urgent amendments are needed to mitigate the corrosive effects of technology on the societal and the personal. You can read an edited extract from the lecture on the TLS website.
This is a recording of an event that took place on December 16, 2018, at the Bridge Theatre, London.
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Phil Baker guides us through the morbid, wistful and yet immensely charming world of the writer and illustrator Edward Gorey; Frances Wilson weighs the pleasures and pains of letter and email writing; Ian Sansom on the struggle to be funny
Books
Born To Be Posthumous: The eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Dery
What a Hazard a Letter Is: The strange destiny of the unsent letter, by Caroline Atkins
Written In History: Letters that changed the world, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
In Their Own Words: Volume 2: More letters from history
Wit's End: What wit is, how it works, and why we need it, by James Geary
Messing About In Quotes: A little Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations, compiled by Gyles Brandreth
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David Coward celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of Cyrano de Bergerac, whose radical thought has long been obscured by his protuberant nose; Muriel Zagha on Molière, France’s most famous playwright, and a bold new adaptation of Tartuffe; finally, a poem by Stephen Knight: “Rail Replacement Bus Service” (sigh)
Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’, a new version by John Donnelly, at the National Theatre, London
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With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas
Toby Lichtig comes in to talk the wide scope of Jewish culture, the “lachrymose” theory of history and why it is Arthur Miller time once more. Roz Dineen deals with porn, pile-ons and goop podcasts. And we call Thea when she is “working from home” to check in on her new dog.
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