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The state of British universities, Sylvia Plath, Heidegger’s philosophy, etc the-tls.com/regular-features…
Ghosts, exile and subterranean creatures in a global anthology the-tls.com/literature/ficti…
One of the most extraordinary collections of ancient sculpture in Rome is the Albani-Torlonia collection – a combination of what is left of the eighteenth-century collection (now largely dispersed) assembled by Cardinal Alessandro Albani, with the ... the-tls.com/regular-features…
A portrait of a legendary French figure – and a great performer the-tls.com/arts/film/de-gau…
‘Another hour, and the pavements will fill. / Dresses will blossom like the flower-stalls’ – Gerald Mangan the-tls.com/regular-features…
Jumping freight trains across turn-of-the-century America the-tls.com/history/twentiet…
Tristram Fane Saunders praises the form-busting brilliance of new Nobel Laureate Anne Carson; Lily Herd on shooting stars, shipwrecks and hubris through the ages the-tls.com/regular-features…
How Athenian drama conquered a civilization the-tls.com/classics/greek/t…
What is the worst job you ever had? ‘Painting the underside of an asbestos roof in a heatwave while standing on a plank with no guard rails.’
Twenty Questions with Michael Rosen
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How does distraction inform your writing? ‘I don’t really distinguish between distraction and everyday life.’
Twenty Questions with Anne Serre
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Who has influenced your writing? ‘Everyone I am related to, by blood and marriage.’
Twenty Questions with Elizabeth McCracken
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'This, Adelheid tells us, is “a Story of Blindness”, recreated from her extensive notebooks (sadly destroyed) with “Absolute Accuracy” and without any flimflam concerning “the benefit of hindsight etcetcetc”.'
Christopher Shrimpton: Pioneer or murderer? the-tls.com/literature/ficti…
'Not many people are as keen as we are to pay any money at all for 1920s busts of Sappho, or nineteenth-century plaster versions of the emperor Vitellius.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard ): Our new big queen the-tls.com/regular-features…
