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Some novels, particularly those of a supernatural or fantastical bent, can read like working notes for their fullest iteration as a movie. By contrast, Andrew Michael Hurley’s grisliest jolts are best ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of ...

From the late 1980s onwards, novelists, artists, critics and art historians have foreseen the death of postmodernism. Linda Hutcheon, in the second edition of The Politics of Postmodernism (2002), ...

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