Before Clio Barnard, Gurinder Chadha or even Sally Potter, there was Muriel Box. Between 1952 and 1964 Box directed thirteen features – more than any ...

“Oh, I thought you were a man!” were the words uttered by the pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford when he first met Lise Meitner, the scientist who would go on to discover nuclear fission.

Tomorrow the aliens will invade. Don’t look so surprised. You’ve had plenty of warning. These alien invaders will turn out to be incredibly intelligent: ...

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From Pierre Bourdieu’s disenchanting Homo Academicus (1984) to the superb Cursed Questions (2020) by the late musicologist Richard Taruskin, scholarship ...

Leo Tolstoy hoped to finish Anna Karenina quickly. Within a year of beginning the novel in early 1873, he was already looking forward to its rapid publication in book form. The entire “carcass” of ...

In her Reith Lecture in 2017, Hilary Mantel reflected that the historical novelist “works away at the point where what is enacted meets what is dreamed, where politics meets psychology, where private ...

Amanda Craig is certainly ambitious. The Golden Rule, her latest state-of-the-nation novel, rollicks between crime noir, social satire and Arthurian romance with notable aplomb. Set against the lush ...

At the beginning of Moby-Dick, Ishmael imagines himself appearing on a bill, sandwiched between two great events. One is the “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States”; the ...

A review by Mario Vargas Llosa of Paper Tigers: The ideal fictions of Jorge Luis Borges by John Sturrock, first published in the TLS of April 28, 1978 ...

At the start of her second letter to Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) writes of an Italian master who once told her about an unpronounceable English word which absolutely expressed me ...

“To unlock the mysteries of the universe”, writes the journalist Stephen Kurczy in The Quiet Zone, his highly engaging, first full-length work of non-fiction, “we have to be quiet.” The radio ...