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'Queenie Leavis had no time for the society’s democratizing objectives.' Dinah Birch (Dinah Birch) on influencers who shaped the public’s taste in an earlier era the-tls.com/literature/rec…

Alright, he hasn't read it yet, but Paul Muldoon is looking forward to reading PROTO. Hurrah!

'As in a modern advice column, an admirably served comeuppance to a disingenuous or witless correspondent is no small part of the enjoyment of the entries.' Melanie Bigold on a pioneering personal advice column the-tls.com/politics-socie…

And I am totally thrilled to be in the The TLS as well this week, reviewing a novel set in Lisbon! O the Lisbon days...

'Rudolph practised alchemy, lived and ruled by astrology, and owned a dodo.' James Hall on Rudoph II and the empirical study of nature the-tls.com/arts/visual-ar…

'Chairs are made out of wood and vinyl (in one case, wood and grass), coffeemakers out of glass and leather, lamps out of paper and wood.' Rod Mengham: The Philadelphia Museum’s huge wartime holdings the-tls.com/arts/visual-ar…

Sarah Gear: Recording a complex tapestry of life the-tls.com/regular-featur…

'Amid the PC-gone-mad larks, he keeps the focus trained on his protagonist’s personal journey.' Houman Barekat (Houman Barekat): A satire of identity politics at the University of Oxford the-tls.com/literature/fic…

'With Erskine, you may be married by a benefactor, or adopted by one, or befriended by another who instructs you in the ways of the world.' Patricia Craig: An incident of sexual misconduct hangs over a Belfast community the-tls.com/literature/fic…

'Initial skirmishes in the seventeenth century quickly gave way to mutually beneficial trade, fuelled in the eighteenth century by a growing Russian thirst for tea.' Edward Tyerman on the friendship and rivalry of two neighbouring imperial powers the-tls.co.uk/history/china-…

'There are no essential foods, only essential nutrients: in other words, no ideal diet for all societies at all times.' Clarissa Hyman on a philosophy for eating the-tls.com/culture/food-d…

'La Laguna is a wonderfully preserved piece of fifteenth-century urbanism, a university town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a model for Spanish colonial settlements in the New World.' Mary Beard (mary beard): The other Canary Islands the-tls.com/regular-featur…

'Lord’s was reluctant to vote to reduce its influence, even if it was clearly for the benefit of the game.' Mike Jakeman: How not to grow a sport the-tls.com/culture/sport/…

'It’s hard to imagine that those Mar-a-Lago sleepovers involved much giggling around the campfire.' Regina Rini (Regina Rini): Aristotle and the Trump-Musk bromance the-tls.com/regular-featur…

Television’s genius, Longleat’s manuscripts, Philadelphia’s bookworm, Hammersmith’s Amnesty Bookshop the-tls.com/regular-featur…

'The waltz appears as the dance equivalent of a dangerously individual choice.' Victoria Kahn: From dance cards to voting the-tls.com/philosophy/con…

Pablo Scheffer (Pablo Scheffer): Spectres, mermaids and vengeful seals in Icelandic legends the-tls.com/regular-featur…

'Crowds, far from being mindless mobs, often challenge power and autocracy.' Peter Geoghegan (Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.uk) on mass protest in the modern era the-tls.com/politics-by-re…

'This deep-fried pastry was named mithivedi, which means ‘landmine’.' Darra Goldstein (Darra Goldstein): Food and culinary tradition as casualties of conflict the-tls.com/culture/food-d…

'A veterinarian admired her understanding of animals; a hydrophysicist quoted her in lectures; a septuagenarian in Vermont wrote that hers was the only book of poems he had ever actually finished.' Clare Cavanagh on poetry held up against the light the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe…