A radical Rasputin
Murder and madness in Victorian Kent
Reviews
The TLS
The Times Literary Supplement’s weekly reviews
2026
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The art of infamy
A novel about literature and conquest
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Infernal time machine
China Miéville’s anti-colonialist vision
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Substitute life
Living in the shadow of a half-brother’s death
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Moving on
A novel of Irish emigrants and paternal wounds
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How to load a gun
Romance and vengeance in the Dublin underworld
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Electric dreams
Searching for connection in a post-government dystopia
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Terminal velocity
A wealthy businessman heads to an assisted dying clinic
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Bunker mentality
Art, money and doomsday preppers on a simmering Greek island
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Taking sides
An exhilarating expansion of Emily St. John Mandel’s multiverse
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The sun also sets
Jokes and bad food, as humanity clings to a dying planet
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Only align
The gulf between word and deed in the digital age
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Beyond the border
A writer contends with the psychological fallout from writing
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The road to Manderley
An origin story of Daphne du Maurier’s <em>Rebecca</em>
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A few killings more
Homophobia, violence and closeted lives in 1980s Jamaica
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Ordinary life?
The second novel of a trilogy set in Hitler’s Germany
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They live by night
An Italian novel set in the greed-is-good era
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Agrippa did it
The ghostwriter of ancient works returns
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Sympathy for the everyman
Reimagining sixteen days in 1381
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Keeping the stars from falling
A study of freedom in the aftermath of the American Civil War
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Uncomfortable glorifications
A long line of lives broken by war
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A card from the Holy Land
Exploring Britain’s historical role in a conflict that still rages
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Fog over the Festival of Britain
A mechanical rabbit, a collapsible rubber bus and the mystery of a missing woman
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His indecision is final
A novel that prefigures the films of the nouvelle vague director Éric Rohmer
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G.- force
A picaresque novel of sex and history
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Fears of freedom
The ‘real’ life – or not – of a jaded film star
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Heart, brain and soul
Different conceptions of the self, in ancient Egypt and the present day
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Love > philosophy
Mathematical logic and unrequited devotion in 1950s Oxford
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No such thing as love
The ‘deadpan gothic’ of Agnes Owens
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Alienation and freedom
A Palestinian academic assumes the identity of a Jewish Israeli
