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Published — 10 November 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Men On A Mission

This week, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas explore the rise to prominence of Volodymyr Zelensky, the satirical stand-up turned president and war leader; and blow the cobwebs off the world’s rarest medieval manuscripts.



'The Zelensky Effect' by Olga Onuch and Henry E Hale

'Zelensky: Ukraine’s president and his country' by Steven Derix with Marina Shelkunova, translated by Brent Annable

'The Fight of Our Lives: My time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s battle for democracy, and what it means for the world' by Iuliia Mendel, translated by Madeline G Levine

'Zelensky: A biography' by Serhii Rudenko, translated by Michael M Naydan and Alla Perminova


'The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club' by Christopher de Hamel


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Published — 6 November 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 3 November 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Who Knows Where The Time Goes

This week André Aciman toasts the genius of Marcel Proust, a century after his death; and Richard Lea on the mesmerising multiverses of John Banville.


The works of Marcel Proust

‘The Singularities’ by John Banville


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Published — 30 October 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 27 October 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

From Battleground to Billiard Table

This week, we learn about the final years of the Napoleonic era, poke around the exclusive gentlemen’s watering holes of Pall Mall, and discover how Roy Orbison ended up meeting his wife in Batley Variety Club.



’Napoleon: The decline and fall of an Empire, 1811-1821’ by Michael Broers

’Napoleon at Peace: How to end a revolution’ by William Doyle

‘Behind Close Doors: The secret life of London’s private members’ clubs’ by Seth Alexander Thévoz

‘Clubland: How the working men's club shaped Britain’ by Pete Brown


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Published — 23 October 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 20 October 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

A Journey Into The Ambiguous Afterlife

This week, Toby Lichtig interviews the new Booker laureate, Shehan Karunatilaka, and discovers why he killed off his protagonist; and we explore the latest developments in a Chaucerian controversy.


‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ by Shehan Karunatilaka

Mary C Flannery on Chaucer


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Published — 16 October 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 13 October 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Measuring Our Lives, One Reindeer At A Time

Richard Dunn joins Alex and Lucy to discuss how humanity began to measure the world around it; and Lauren Elkin illuminates the immense artistic contribution of Annie Ernaux, this winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature.


‘Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement’ by James Vincent

The work of Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize laureate 2022


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Published — 9 October 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 6 October 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

United We Stand

Sofia Chelyak joins us to preview this weekend’s Lviv International Book Forum, in which guests including Margaret Atwood and Henry Marsh will join Ukrainian writers and thinkers in an online extravaganza; plus highlights of our live podcast on narrative arcs in fiction, history and politics and how to support a literary fundraiser for those affected by floods in Pakistan.


Lviv International BookForum, 7-9 October 2022

https://airauctioneer.com/books-for-pakistan


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Published — 2 October 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 29 September 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Marching To Their Own Tune

This week, Dennis Zhou joins us to illuminate the activism, anarchism and agility of the poet Gary Snyder; and Hannah Skoda reports from the Globe on a bold reinterpretation of the life of Joan of Arc.


'Collected Poems' by Gary Snyder, edited by Jack Shoemaker and Anthony Hunt

'I, Joan' by Charlie Josephine


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Published — 22 September 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Vaccines On Stage, Elves On Screen

This week, we talk to Jonathan Spector about the European premiere of his play at the Old Vic; and Dimitra Fimi unpacks what's behind the new tv series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.


Eureka Day, The Old Vic, London, until October 31


The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon Prime


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Published — 18 September 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 15 September 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

The Rise of Your Frenemy’s Sourdough

This week, Miranda France explores a suite of books about motherhood; and we survey the pick of this autumn’s fiction with Toby Lichtig. 


‘Don’t Forget to Scream: Unspoken Truths About Motherhood’ by Marianne Levy

‘Motherhood: Feminism’s Unfinished Business’ by Eliane Glaser

‘Motherload: Modern Motherhood and How to Survive It’ by Ingrid Wassenaar

The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem’ by Julie Phillips

’Still Born’ by Guadelupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey

‘Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation’ by Sophie Lewis

’The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ by Shehan Karunatilaka

’The Trees’ by Percival Everett

‘Haven’ by Emma Donoghue

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Published — 11 September 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

The Hour Of Our Death

Emily Wilson considers how we address our final days

Book reviewed: The Mortal Coil: A history of death by Andrew Doig

The Inevitable: Dispatches on the right to die by Katie Engelhart

All the Living and the Dead: A personal investigation into the death trade by Hayley Campbell


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Published — 8 September 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi joins us to explain how she captured the stories of her Italian grandmother; and Edmund Gordon admires how Ian McEwan’s new novel juxtaposes an individual life with memorable social and political events.


‘Dandelions’ by Thea Lenarduzzi

‘Lessons’ by Ian McEwan

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Published — 4 September 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 1 September 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Women In Cages, Everywhere

Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas are joined by Rohan Maitzen to discuss the new novel by Maggie O’Farrell, an ingenious and daring Browning version; and Sarah Hill charts musician Vashti Bunyan’s epic walk from London to Scotland in search of freedom.


‘The Marriage Portrait’ by Maggie O’Farrell

‘Wayward: Just Another Life to Live’ by Vashti Bunyan

‘Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir’ by Martha Wainwright

‘This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music’ edited by Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon


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