Martin Beagles

2 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Pablo Scheffer |Norma Clarke |Martin Beagles |Mark Nayler

Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902. Venice with bicyclesA sympathetic introduction to AmsterdamTo Albert Camus, Amsterdam’s concentric waterways resembled the circles of hell. His protagonist in The Fall (1956), a “judge- penitent” who whiles away his days in a seedy sailors’ bar on the Zeedijk, unkindly describes the city’s “little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs” as an enfer bourgeois.

2 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Martin Beagles |Norma Clarke |Pablo Scheffer |Mark Nayler

Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902. ¡Camelón, plis, camelón!A Spanish writer’s reflections on living the English wayShortly after arriving in a cold London in December 1910, the prolific Spanish journalist and travel writer Julio Camba (1884–1962) tried to go for a walk. To his surprise, Camba, a foreign correspondent for various Spanish newspapers, was prevented from achieving this modest aim by a succession of anxious policemen.

Oct 23, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Aaron Peck |Martin Beagles |Terri Apter |adventureBy Aaron Peck

Pansexual orgies, extremely long discourses on Mormonism, cruel and perverse Russian counts, odes to the diversity and chaos of Paris, portraits of famous painters – Seated Woman: A chronicle of France and America, here translated by Timothy Mathews, was Guillaume Apollinaire’s attempt to take stock of the destruction caused by the Great War and to imagine what kind of world might be possible in its wake.

Oct 23, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Muireann Maguire |Martin Beagles |Terri Apter |Stephanie Sy-Quia

Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain is Joachim B. Schmidt’s second Kalmann novel, translated by Jamie Lee Searle from the original German.

Oct 23, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Martin Beagles

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