The origins of the modern-day Spanish nation do not predate the existence of empire. In 1492 the Genovese adventurer Christopher Columbus set sail under the flags of the Catholic Monarchs – Queen ...

In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Morning Star (TLS, October 1, 2021), ordinary Norwegian lives are disrupted by the sudden appearance of a shining portent in the sky one unseasonably hot summer.

“Manchester is the south of the north”, writes Jeanette Winterson: spot-on. I’ve never met anyone who has a clear mental map of the place. On the ground it seems to have a grid pattern, but the roads ...

Editors and writers join Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark to talk through the week's issue. Subscribe for free via iTunes, Spotify and other podcast platforms ...

One might have assumed that the political thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries would be occupied, in a significant way, with cities. Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Rousseau and other ...

Ellen Jones reviewed Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil’s ÄÄ for the TLS in 2021 (In Brief, April 23). She has now translated it from Spanish into English as This Mouth Is Mine. In this collection of articles ...

A mission to revive publishing in the once-dominant language ...

The Restoration of 1660 gave rise to the powerful and enduring myth that monarchy has always been Britain’s destiny. Charles Stuart’s escape via an oak tree after his defeat at Worcester in 1651, ...