“You cannot conceive what a delightful companion you are now you are gone.”

Kathryn Sutherland on Letters to Byron’s Cambridge friends
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'Many aspects of Byron’s life speak to twenty-first-century concerns: his sexuality was ambiguous, he was disabled ... he was sexually abused as a boy ... he had disordered eating and he was truly international in his outlook.

Corin Throsby on Byron
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'The eclipse will have happened on Monday. If somehow it has not – if the Sun and Moon do not turn up where we expect them – then we’ll have much bigger problems than an inaccurate column.'

Regina Rini (Regina Rini) on eclipses and philosophy
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'The narrator mourns the old-school belief in writing as a sacred calling, a commitment akin to the priesthood.'

Frances Wilson on writing as a hostile act
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'Catherine had always been exceptionally discreet about what had happened to force her to leave her marital home.'

John Bowen on how Dickens tried to place his wife in an asylum
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'Faye becomes obsessed with Elimane, who never defended himself against the plagiarism charges and never published another book.'

Michael LaPointe on the hunt for a long-lost masterpiece from Senegal the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-m…

'Some critics worried that the vagabond hedonist was enjoying himself too much.'

Boyd Tonkin (Boyd Tonkin) on a pagan pantheist who melted cubism or surrealism into sun and fun
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Toby Muse: How the Wa were betrayed
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'A brilliant career awaited – until accusations of plagiarism erupted.'

Tobias Warner on the belated rehabilitation of a classic from Mali
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'One day she met Nancy Mitford on the beach, and the two women bonded over their solitary status and similar tastes in popular fiction.'

Ann Kennedy Smith (Ann Kennedy Smith): Hankering after 1950s Venice the-tls.co.uk/articles/love-…

'On contemporary pilgrimages, as much as in the lifespans they simulate in miniature, you make your own meaning.'

Nat Segnit (Nat Segnit) on what pilgrimage means today
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'Many fall foul of capricious immigration regulations, end up overstaying their visas and have to play cat and mouse with the police.'

Nick Holdstock (Nick Holdstock) on a travelogue that examines the experiences of Africans in China
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Jonathan Gibbs (Jonathan Gibbs) discusses The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft in this week's TLS.
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'Most rightly insists on the musical dimension of Greek and Latin lyric, which is now all but lost.'

Peter McDonald: Metre matters in this anthology of classical lyric poetry
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'They behave, in fact, exactly as you’d expect a bunch of writers to behave in a literary-themed edition of Big Brother.'

Jonathan Gibbs (Jonathan Gibbs): A group of translators go off in search of their missing author
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“There can be little doubt that Roman society was shaped by the written word.”

Alan Bowman on Roman ink wells: objets d’art or objects of daily use?
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'Burgess suffered from an embarrassment of riches as well as from an excessive love of words and language.'

Margaret Drabble on the dizzying fiction of Anthony Burgess
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'Long Day’s Journey is not a play entirely without comic relief ... but it ought not to elicit frequent laughter from the stalls.'

George Berridge (@george_berridge) on a new production of Eugene O’Neill’s tragedy of memory and regret
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'Rossini’s last opera was an epic masterpiece, its orchestral grandeur and political seriousness very different from the Italian bel canto style ... that had made him famous'

Larry Wolff on Rossini’s rarely performed epic opera of liberty and independence
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Declan Ryan (@DeclanRBoxing) on odes to Gino Bartali
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