On the Shoulders of Giants

Emma Smith on how Shakespeare scholarship grapples with gaps; and Muriel Zagha admires François Ozon's noir adaptation of Camus's classic novel'Book Culture in Shakespeare's Stratford: The Quiney Connections', by Marlin E. Blaine, Lena Cowen Orlin, Robert Bearman and Alan H. Nels ...  Show more

It's been quite a month on The TLS Podcast, here's a listen back at some of the conversations we've had in March.We hear from Christy Edwall on the joys of being a lifelong bookworm, Sarah Lonsdale on the remarkable Clemence Dane, Julian Evans on two books exploring the link betw ...  Show more

Before he became a best-selling author, John Green was going to dedicate his life to God. Until he crossed paths with Nick. Twenty years later, John sets off to find Nick and revisit the day that changed the course of both their lives.

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Philip Dodd along with Dr Tim Stanley and Paul Glastris review the American version of the political thriller House of Cards. Deborah Cohen, Mark Vernon and Charlotte Blease discuss shame and guilt amongst the British family from the Victorian era to the present day. Rufus Norris ...  Show more

This one’s for the girlypops! Jodi and Nora first gab about our favorite problematic women of the week, including the hold that Jordon Hudson seems to have on her grandpa-boyfriend Bill Belichick (2:53), Club Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow marketing ‘Marty Supreme’ in very differen ...  Show more

It was a robots' world, run by soul-less heaps of haughty metal. But among the humans there was one — only one — who aspired to greatness; only one who stood the chance of breaking out of his subservient shell. He was the Time-Window Kid. ... He was James P. Crow. James P. Crow b ...  Show more