TLS - September 04, 2026

Agrippa Robert Harris Doom Painting A. K. Blakemore The Newer World Sebastian Barry Children of the Wild Kevin Powers Farewell to Eden Sebastian Faulks Our Noble Selves Kate Atkinson

Beyond Bedlam (Royal Academy, London) Someone Else’s Music Alexandra Wilson. Opera Wars Caitlin Vincent

La Contessa Benedetta Craveri; Translated by Alex Andriesse Rimini Pier Vittorio Tondelli; Translated by Elena Pala

Murder in Paris ’68 Edward Chisholm Élisabeth Éric Rohmer; Translated by Aaron Kerner

The Undiscovered Country Andrew Herring The Death of the Clinic Benoît Loiseau

The Renoir Girls Catherine Ostler The People’s Emperor Edward Shawcross

The White Pedestal Curtis Dozier Athena’s Sisters Katherine Backler

Monumental Simon Warrack The Pen Simon Garfield

Slavery, race and the Enlightenment, Prison reading, Godot for PoWs, The Odyssey, etc

The Missing

A matter of life and death

A matter of life and death

MAN, 64, SEEKS CHAOS

Another way

Lord Hailsham

Slavery, race and the Enlightenment

Maimonides

Prison reading

Godot for PoWs

Englished Homer

The Odyssey

Joyce’s lost brother

Beginning to Live

Madagascan literature

Englished Homer

Correction

Ways of living

G. force

A long time to get nowhere

Street child

Master mason

Sticks with ink

They live by night

Diplomacy of the divan

Juvenal delinquency

A woman’s place

Letting go

Letting go

AI and the crisis of the author

AI and the crisis of the author

AI and the crisis of the author

The Missing

Simon’s Town

Colliding with the supernatural

Colliding with the supernatural

Who cares about this any more?

Who cares about this any more?

Agrippa did it

Sympathy for the everyman

Keeping the stars from falling

Uncomfortable glorifications

Sympathy for the everyman

Uncomfortable glorifications

A card from the Holy Land

Fog over the Festival of Britain

A card from the Holy Land

Pink and Blue

The other Napoleon

The talented Monsieur Delon

His indecision is final

Billion boys

Billion boys

Freedom in dance

Freedom in dance

Two Graves

Being there

‘The Philosopher’

Dressing the part

Assad and after

Growing together

Seeds of hope

Growing together

Transmissions

Greenhouses

Records

Flashbacks

Awakenings

Chaos

Cracks Manni Coe

Flashbacks

Revision

Noise

Conduct

TLS Crossword 1618 by Praxiteles

Serpents and f loods

Solution to Crossword 1617

Love’s work