The Times Literary Supplement

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Joan Williams |Nicola Shulman |Stephen Glover |James Robins

Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless People is a compulsively readable account of the effects of social media on democracy. Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Wynn-Williams left the company in 2017. This is an addictive exposé of her time there, filled with explosive allegations.

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Mia Levitin

A detail from "Still life with oranges" by Oscar Ghiglia, 1925 | © Mondadori Portfolio/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Tom Evans

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe hereWelcome to the TLSGertrude Stein won recognition for one masterwork, but struggled to find an audience for her oeuvre

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Jeffrey Wasserstrom |Miranda France |Keith Miller |J. E. Smyth

Linda Gordon is a unique figure in the field of US history. Since her Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A social history of birth control in America came out in 1976, she has produced several first-rate books, focusing predominantly on women’s experiences. She won the coveted Bancroft prize, awarded for books about American history or diplomacy, in 2000 and 2010. Her archival digging and stylish writing have inspired many historians, including some who, like me, don’t work on American history.

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Estelle Shirbon

Two couples who move in elite circles in London venture in disguise into an enchanted forest in the south of France. Their lives are transformed by who they encounter there – each other, and the famous clairvoyant Madame Sosostris. The protagonists are a member of the House of Lords married to a CEO, and a trustee of charities whose husband is a magazine editor.