On the most recent TLS Podcast, our French editor Russell Williams joined Alex and Lucy to discuss the current turmoil at the French publishing house Éditions Grasset; full episode link in bio
"The project of literature is to produce more literature. That's it." — Peter Filkins, Jewish Book Week 2026
Peter Filkins, winner of the inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize, joins @the.tls Politics and Fiction Editor Toby Lichtig and prize judges Boyd Tonkin, Hephzibah Anderson and Shoshana Boyd Gelfand to explore the art of translation — and his award-winning translation of The Book Against Death by Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti.
🎬 Coming this week to the JLF Video Player. Link in bio.
@fitzcarraldoeditions@hephzibah_books@pushkin_press
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; link in bio
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Two Versions of Horace’ by Hannah Sullivan.
Read the full poem and Andrew McCulloch’s introduction on our website; link in bio
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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; link in bio
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