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Together again, my father and I sitthrough this late afternoon, watchingthe sprinkler turn its arms, a clockthrowing mist across the lawn. His breath at eighty-sixis a small bird, restless in its cage.Elbow to elbow on the splintered bench,we smile as a... the-tls.com/literature/origi…
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Deeply honoured to be on the cover of this week's @TheTLS, reviewing the @britishmuseum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition and related books by Tom Licence, Erin Goeres, Emily Winkler, @DJMusgrove, @Tostig1066 and others. (Link to follow.)
The highways of European identity the-tls.com/world/travel/dow…
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Our regular literary crossword the-tls.com/regular-features…
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The state of British universities, Sylvia Plath, Heidegger’s philosophy, etc the-tls.com/regular-features…
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The House of Literature in Oslo is right in the centre of the city, not far from the royal palace (it is said that the Crown Princess sometimes pops across to the literary events). Founded in 2006, in a building that was originally a teacher training ... the-tls.com/regular-features…
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A wealthy businessman heads to an assisted dying clinic the-tls.com/literature/ficti…
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How the opium trade has shaped the modern world the-tls.com/politics-society…
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Murder and madness in Victorian Kent the-tls.com/history/modern-h…
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A fast-paced tale of escape, industrial success and revolution the-tls.com/regular-features…
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America’s liberal elite fails to find a new FDR the-tls.com/politics-by-regi…
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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…
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The trials of a public intellectual the-tls.com/literature-by-re…
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Immersion in Steve Reich the-tls.com/arts/phase-patte…
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China Miéville’s anti-colonialist vision the-tls.com/literature/ficti…
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‘It's not sad. / It's bright / and clear.’ – Margaret Atwood the-tls.com/regular-features…
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Entertainment set by algorithms the-tls.com/arts/film/data-d…
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Flowers and their appeal to our senses the-tls.com/science-technolo…
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‘Purify: make by fire; / Thou could’st do this, and could’st wed fire with music’ – John Fethaland the-tls.com/regular-features…
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