The Times Literary Supplement

3 days 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.

3 days 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

3 days 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

3 days 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.

1 week ago | the-tls.co.uk | Mary Beard

That is a quote from an anonymous poem in the Palatine Anthology, words put in the mouth of Dido, explaining that the whole story of her relationship with Aeneas was a fiction: I never laid eyes on Aeneas, and I did not come to Libya at the time Troy was sacked. Rather, it was to avoid a forced marriage with Iarbas that I stuck the double-bladed sword through my heart. Muses, why did you equip that awful Virgil with weapons against me?