Pablo Scheffer

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.

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Pablo Scheffer

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.

Nov 17, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Pablo Scheffer

Street musicians in New Orleans, the setting of Herrera’s new novel Credit: iStock Editorial Benito Juárez is a towering figure in Mexican history. During his 14 years as president (1858–1872), he brought about sweeping liberal reform, led his side to victory in a civil war and beat off an imperial French invasion. He had also, briefly, been an exile. Banished by his political enemies, he’d spent 18 months between 1853 and 1855 washed up in New Orleans. Little is known of what Juárez did for...

Aug 16, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Pablo Scheffer

Book burnings are among the "spectacularly destructive" acts of vandalism against manuscripts, as illustrated by this Dutch roundel (c.1520) Credit: Sepia Times/Getty Images Much of our knowledge of the Middle Ages relies on texts passed down in manuscripts. But, as Robert Bartlett points out in this informative history, the image that these texts present is somewhat tenuous. Estimates suggest that between 85 and 95 per cent of all medieval manuscripts produced have been lost. And certain...