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Published — 9 February 2023 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

State Secrets and Private Passions

This week, Richard Norton-Taylor braves the terrifying world of cyberattacks and their brutal cost; and Lucasta Miller on an intriguing collection of 19th-century commonplace books.


'Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware’ by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud

‘Striking Back: The End of Peace in Cyberspace - and How to Restore It’ by Lucas Kello

The work of scholar and collector William St Clair


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Published — 5 February 2023 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 2 February 2023 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

All Those Old Familiar Places

This week, Elizabeth Dearnley hunts for the hags, fairies and wandering women of the pagan past; and Ruth Scurr on a thrilling final book from the celebrated journalist Janet Malcolm.


‘Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses In Christian Europe’ by Ronald Hutton

‘Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory’ by Janet Malcolm


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Published — 29 January 2023 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 26 January 2023 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Telling It Like It Is

Richard Smyth remembers the equanimity and attentiveness of Ronald Blythe; and Mary Flannery on the enduring appeal of Alison, the Wife of Bath.


‘Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside’ by Ronald Blythe

‘The Wife of Bath: A Biography’ by Marion Turner


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Published — 22 January 2023 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 19 January 2023 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Rattling The Handle On Life

This week, Gabriel Roberts explores the past, present and - we very much hope - the future of bioabundance in animal species; and novelist Gwendoline Riley takes us into the affecting and brutally funny world of Michael Bracewell’s return to fiction after 21 years.


Species loss and bioabundance, by Gabriel Roberts

‘Unfinished Business’ by Michael Bracewell


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Published — 16 January 2023 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 9 January 2023 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 22 December 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty

This week, Lucy Lethbridge explains what a curate's eye is, and how ideas of British cooking range from Aga fantasies to bacon butties; and J. S. Barnes takes us to the dark side of the festive season, via Dickens and M. R. James....


'The British Cookbook: Authentic home cooking recipes from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland' by Ben Mervis


'To Be Read At Dusk: Dickens, ghosts and the supernatural', Charles Dickens Museum, London, until March 5, 2023 


'The Witch Farm', BBC Radio 4 and Sounds 


'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas', Nunkie Theatre Company, December 24, live online  


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

The Power of Connections

This week, we hear how the music-hall star Josephine Baker became a secret agent; and we talk to Simon McBurney of Complicité theatre company, about their haunting audio production of Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising.


'The Flame of Resistance' by Damien Lewis


'The Dark Is Rising' by Susan Cooper, BBC World Service, December 20


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Published — 11 December 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 8 December 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Female Perspectives Take Centre Stage

This week, Breeze Barrington takes us through a history of art with a difference - there are no men; and Larry Wolff talks us through the diva-rich operatic event of the season, the world premiere of The Hours at the Met in New York.


'The Story of Art Without Men' by Katy Hessel


'The Hours' by Kevin Puts

Metropolitan Opera, New York, until December 15. Live transmission in various cinemas, December 10


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

Roman Coins And Radical Rosa Bonheur

This week, Mary Beard talks us through coins and emperors, real and fake, and the hidden networks beneath the Roman Empire; and Norma Clarke discusses the life and work of Rosa Bonheur, a celebrated female artist who kept her radical private life to herself.


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Published — 28 November 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 24 November 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

“It Is An Astonishment To Be Alive”

This week, Baillie Gifford Prizewinner Katherine Rundell describes how John Donne’s life force captivated her; and celebrated actor and playwright Wallace Shawn surveys a lifetime of writing essays.


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Published — 20 November 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture
Published — 17 November 2022 ⏭ The TLS - books and culture

Bearing Witness To Terror

This week, we discuss Emmanuel Carrère’s incisive account of France’s judicial response to the Bataclan attacks; and a host of TLS contributors on their favourite books of 2022.



‘V13: Chronique judiciare’ by Emmanuel Carrère

Books of the Year 2022


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