As Avengers: Endgame is released, Roz Kaveney sweeps us through the shifting cast of superheroes and, latterly, heroines that populate the Marvel Universe, considers the evolving politics of the comic-book film, and answers the question on (some) people's lips: "but why...?"; Imogen Russell Williams's introduces some of the best writing on LGBTQ themes for children and young adults
Avengers: Endgame
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Julian Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Aalfred and Aalbert by Morag Hood
Death in the Spotlight by Robin Stevens
Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by L. C. Rosen
Proud: Stories, poetry and art on the theme of pride, compiled by Juno Dawson
BONUS: Sarah Hall and Sarah Moss – an interview
This Is Magic
On not letting it be
George Orwell and his Roses and a History of Self-Improvement
Books of the Year 2021
The Mythic Town of Concord and the Magic of the Lighted Window
The Booker-winner and the Beatle
Wild Lives
Doom, Faith and Sabotage
Radical Turns
The Autumn Livres
E.M. Forster's Happy Solution
When the Flawed Succeed
Survival of the Wittiest
Sad and Twisted Stories
Greatest Hits
Don't sweat it
Indexes, Newsletters, Potatoes, Gold!
TLS Summer Library: Part IV
TLS Summer Library: Part III
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Voices of Misery Podcast
House of Whimsical Terror
Just Dumb Enough Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL