Editors and writers join Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark to talk through the week's issue. Subscribe for free via iTunes, Spotify and other podcast platforms ...

Footnotes to Plato is a TLS Online series appraising the works and legacies of the great thinkers and philosophers. If you ask philosophers – those in the English speaking analytic tradition anyway – ...

Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Cullen, County Cork in 1945. Many of his poems – notably in his most recent collection The Seasons of Cullen Church (2016) – offset the small histories of people from ...

From the late 1980s onwards, novelists, artists, critics and art historians have foreseen the death of postmodernism. Linda Hutcheon, in the second edition of The Politics of Postmodernism (2002), ...

The day before the shutdown I went into our daughters’ school to teach philosophy. A number of teachers were absent, either because they had underlying health conditions or because they lived with ...

Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas look forward to 2025’s most tempting reading, plan a Jane Austen road trip and resolve to sit up straight.

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

From time to time pessimists declare the literary novel dead and drowned. Currently such pundits distrust its capacity for survival in our tough, market-driven publishing climate, in which sales ...

Amid the concern that we are living in a “post-truth” world of radically incompatible knowledge claims and “alternative facts”, it is easy to lose sight of that other mental faculty, the faculty of ...

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

What’s the purpose of philosophy? Alfred North Whitehead characterized it as a series of footnotes to Plato. You can see his point. On the surface, we don’t seem to have progressed much in the two and ...

What is your favourite book published in the past twelve months? Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro’s The Internationalists. The authors take up a question close to my heart – why has interstate war ...