A kind of green god

With high summer beckoning, John Lewis-Stempel reflects on the incomparable richness of pond life and the rewards of pausing to peer into the murky depths on a warm June afternoon

Letter of the week In hindsight… YOUR ...

Richard Baker explores the origins of John Buchan's famous sporting novel with the help of Ursula Buchan, the author's granddaughter and biographer

The opening of my first novel Heatstroke came to me in what Stevie Nicks would call a ‘crystal vision’. I was at work, seized by an impulse, and typed straight into an email what are still – give or t

Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading

BARRIERS WHO WANTS NORMAL? The disabled girls’ ...