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A review by David Attenborough of Tom Phillips’s African Goldweights, published in the TLS of July 23, 2010 the-tls.com/regular-features…
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Inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize winner Peter Filkins joins @TheTLS's Toby Lichtig and prize judges to discuss the art of translation and his interpretation of Elias Canetti's The Book Against Death.
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Knowing like mad: Jeremy Noel-Tod on the poetry and criticism of J. H. Prynne, who died yesterday, at the age of eighty-nine the-tls.com/literature/poetr…
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The many faces of Shakespeare; being Jan Morris; how elephants communicate; Deborah Levy and Gertrude Stein; Japan’s demographic crisis; AI reviewing – and much more: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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'It has a major Roman collection from Hadrian’s Wall (it’s easy to forget that Carlisle was directly on the Wall and there is a great visible tract of it nearby at Birdoswald).'
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'In my first years at King’s, Averil (along with Carlotta Dionisotti) taught me how to be a professional academic and how, especially, to thrive, or manage, as a woman in the academy.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard): Averil Cameron
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'The prize has been awarded every two years since 1998 to someone who has linked an intellectual engagement with Classics to a commitment to “the public good”.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard ): Classics for All? the-tls.com/regular-features…
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The British imagination; Trump’s whisperers; the orphan behind Oliver Twist; birds in art; Ben Lerner returns; nocturnal beauty – and much more. Out now: the-tls.com/issues/current-i…
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'There are plenty of houses that have been “classicized” by the addition of a few columns whose elongated proportions would make Vitruvius turn in his grave.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard ): The ‘Column Crowd’ the-tls.com/regular-features…
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'There were many revealing information plaques set in the sidewalk commemorating them and marking where they had lived. (It wasn’t all generals; I spotted a plaque for the country singer, Patsy Cline).'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard): Putting America Right Again the-tls.com/regular-features…
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'I will forever be grateful to her for allowing me some careful and considerate airtime after one of the first nasty attacks I received on social media.'
Mary Beard (@wmarybeard): Jenni Murray and Pompeii the-tls.com/regular-features…
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The struggle between good and evil in William Golding’s fiction the-tls.com/lives/letters/wi…
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William Golding’s beast within; the many lives of W. H. Auden; Palantir spreads; the spirit of the Risorgimento; Ishiguro on film; experiencing consciousness – and much more.
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The failure to combat laundering the-tls.com/politics-society…
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'At the time, it brought back memories of the Falklands War and the different “styles” of reportage.'
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The first portraitist to put an indelible mark on an era the-tls.com/arts/art-history…
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The cult of Holbein; the uncertain future of reading; dreaming of Cairo; how the Bible came to be; an Orwellian dilemma – and much more.
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