This week, TLS editor Martin Ivens and writer and broadcaster James O'Brien on the long decline of the Conservatives; and Muriel Zagha celebrates 75 years of Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes.
'The Party's Over: The rise and fall of the Conservatives from
Thatcher to Sunak', by Phil Barton-Cartledge
'The Right to Rule: Thirteen years, five prime ministers and the
implosion of the Tories', by Ben Riley-Smith
'The Case for the Centre Right', edited by David Gauke
'All to Play For: The advance of Rishi Sunak', by Michael Ashcroft
'The Red Shoes: Beyond the mirror', BFI Southbank, until January 7
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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A Bengali Polymath and an ‘Accidental Modernist’
‘But Where’s the Poetry?!’
D. H. Lawrence in Flames
Jane Austen and Abolition
Angela Thirkell’s Relentless Self-Belief
Pirandello’s Controlled Chaos
Violence Upon the Roads
Underground and on the Run
Getting Shakespeare’s Measure
Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?
Dreams of America
Myth-busting, awkwardness, pure Marvellousness
Vivian Gornick’s Time
Avoidance and absurdity
Ishiguro’s AI and Grendel’s Mother
Nostalgia, Outsiders and "Rubber Tramps"
Weapons, Grouse and Red Herrings
Tentatively Pressing
The Barbara Comyns revival
BONUS: David Baddiel - Jews Don't Count
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