“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind”, W. B. Yeats wrote in 1927; “sex and the dead.” ...

Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland from the 1690s to the 1730s, could supposedly bend a horseshoe with ...

In the past Michael Longley has been sceptical about his Selected Poems. In an interview with Peter McDonald in 1998 he ...

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Rob Jackson’s Into the Clear Blue Sky is a fascinating exploration of the atmosphere near and far. It is also a reminder that we’re not making much progress towards a future based on clean energy.

The Noise of Time begins with a sequence of fragmentary images and disjointed motifs that in the course of the narrative acquire a symbolic significance, and are eventually slotted into a carefully ...

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

The Times Literary Supplement has been published since 1902 and remains the only weekly standalone literary journal in the world. Readers of the TLS are mature (average age 60), affluent (average ...

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

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