Richard Fortey takes us on an energetic sprint through 65 million years of Europe's complex biological history; David Robey introduces the life and work of Emilio Salgari, the Italian Rider Haggard; Ella Baron, the TLS's regular cartoonist, discusses her work, including this week's European cover.
Books
Europe: A natural history by Tim Flannery
Emilio Salgari: Una mitologia moderna tra letteratura, politica, società (volumes I and II) by Ann Lawson Lucas
Ella Baron's work will be exhibited at Christie's in London, from April 5 to 10
'We should all be interested in pigeons...'
The most expensive mystery of all
How to be modern: conspiracy theory, free will and the avant-garde
‘We don’t know what he has, we don’t know what he’s done with it’
Nature for sale
Unromancing the Romantics
Loving Iris Murdoch
Who reads John Updike?
Talk to the hands
Summer Books 2019
Russian greats and fictional eats
Ethical economics
Weighty matters
Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction
Victoria at 200
Knowing laughter
Journey to the centre of the earth
To infinities – and beyond
The life-writing issue
Ian McEwan – an interview
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