Living in the shadow of a half-brother’s death the-tls.com/lives/autobiogra…

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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‘It's not sad. / It's bright / and clear.’ – Margaret Atwood the-tls.com/regular-features…

China Miéville’s anti-colonialist vision the-tls.com/literature/ficti…

A wealthy businessman heads to an assisted dying clinic the-tls.com/literature/ficti…

Entertainment set by algorithms the-tls.com/arts/film/data-d…

Flowers and their appeal to our senses the-tls.com/science-technolo…

The trials of a public intellectual the-tls.com/literature-by-re…

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…

Murder and madness in Victorian Kent the-tls.com/history/modern-h…

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 draft-dodger sets off for the border the-tls.com/literature/ficti…

The global descent into the Second World War the-tls.com/history/collapse…

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…