The third novel in Hari Kunzru’s three-colours trilogy (Nat Segnit) the-tls.co.uk/articles/blue-…

'So much has been written on polyamory recently that it’s been damned as the new wild swimming'

How sex and relationships are evolving in the digital age (@mirandafrance1) the-tls.co.uk/articles/love-…

Dark clouds gather over a family reunion in Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s new novel (Liam Bishop) the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-s…

Why we are still so fascinated by Patricia Highsmith’s creations the-tls.co.uk/articles/riple…

Identifying John Milton’s copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles (claire m. l. bourne Aaron T. Pratt Jason Scott-Warren) the-tls.co.uk/articles/john-…

OUT IN THIS WEEK'S The TLS—

IDENTIFYING JOHN MILTON’S COPY OF HOLINSHED’S CHRONICLES by me, Aaron T. Pratt, & Jason Scott-Warren

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'This is the portrait of an emblematic young woman struggling to combine marriage and motherhood with a creative career.'

Lucasta Miller on how to make the life of Sylvia Plath ‘relatable’
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'Jung felt there was something in the background of his dreams that could come forward, if only he switched off conscious control as much as possible.'

Phil Baker on Jung’s records of encounters with his unconscious
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In this week’s The TLS, featuring Miranda France modern relationships; Janet Todd on Aphra Behn; Nathalie Olah on Ripley; Nat Segnit on Hari Kunzru; Crispin Sartwell on anarchism; Vanessa Braganza, Book Detective 🔍 on neglected heroines – and more

'My job consumes me, creating is painful, every year I work in anguish. I withdraw like a hermit, I don’t go out, it’s a hard life and that’s why I understand Proust so well.'

Jeff Koehler on how Yves Saint Laurent fashioned his life on Proust
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'Whereas once purple had to be extracted from the mucus glands of Mediterranean sea snails in a complex and stinking process, now it could be produced for a fraction of the cost.'

Kathryn Hughes on how the Victorians saw colour
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'A bilingual dictionary can be consulted to match every source-text word with a semantically equivalent word in the translating language. But that is fundamentally an interpretive act.'

Lawrence Venuti on difficulties in analysing the act of translation
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'Ginzburg found an excellent medium for conveying the richness and oddity of the goings-on in her eccentric family; domestic trivia and small talk speak more clearly here than pages of political analysis.'

Margaret Drabble on Natalia Ginzburg
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'If we are to celebrate reading as a practice that reveals our social privileges to us ... we also have to acknowledge that reading can confirm our worst social practices.'

Penny Newell: Is reading good for you?
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'Darwin wrote that his hypothesis, although superficially resembling Buffon’s, was “essentially different”.'

Gregory Radick on the rival eighteenth-century naturalists who paved the way for Darwin
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'What sets these feats of art and engineering apart from the other impressive traces of antiquity that survive today?'

Jessica Lightfoot on ancient sites felt as well as seen
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‘This, presumably, means that we are now in league / with life’ – Joseph Brodsky the-tls.co.uk/articles/after…

Henry Hitchings (Henry Hitchings) on dispatches from the world of disinformation the-tls.co.uk/articles/among…

'By the summer of 50 BCE, when he was 33, he was a senator, had been elected tribune of the plebs for the following year and, more significantly, had secured a place as an augur.'

Catherine Steel: Taking the measure of Mark Antony
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'Our current idea of lexicographical labour is an invention of the modern office-based dictionary company, and one that is designed to privilege the work of (academic) men over that of women.'

Kory Stamper on sexist lexicography
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