In her brilliant autofictional debut Eliza Barry Callahan follows a film composer in her late twenties struck with ...

A writer known, if at all, for a fragment of a Persian manuscript entitled Conditions in the Age of Humayun Badshah scarcely ...

Not every reader would second Tennyson’s desire for “a great novel in hundreds of volumes that I might go on and on”. He was ...

New Place, the grandest house in Stratford, bought by Shakespeare in 1597; and the Birthplace (as it is now known), the ...

I confess to a soft spot for Victorian academic ladies – at least, those of the tougher sort. My distant predecessor at ...

We cannot imagine the course of our lives except as it manifests itself in places”, said a TLS review of Fleur Adcock’s collection Time-Zones (1991). In the same review, the poem “House-Martins”, ...

Humans have always fished for sustenance, but the earliest evidence we have of fishing for recreation is Dame Juliana Berners’s A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496), in which she outlines the ...

How many times can a story be told before it loses its ability to enthral and edify? The story of the Buddha has been endlessly conveyed, in different ways and places, over the course of 2,000 years, ...

Tommy Orange’s new novel opens with the Sand Creek massacre of Native Americans in Colorado in 1864, then moves to where his debut novel, There There (2018), closes: at the (fictional) Oakland powwow ...

Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional is a novel of austere contemplation and personal devastation, its narrative driven by moral crisis rather than worldly action. It is set in the Monaro region in ...

As the TLS celebrates all things Shakespeare, Emma Smith goes to see Ian McKellen’s larger-than-life Falstaff; plus Rana Mitter on the immense impact and lasting legacy of the Tokyo Trial. Kathryn ...

Last October a broad liberal coalition led by Donald Tusk, the former president of the European Council, took Europe by surprise when it ousted Poland’s national-populist Law and Justice (PiS) party ...