The Times Literary Supplement

For over a century, the Times Literary Supplement has been the world's leading cultural magazine, with essays and reviews on the most significant books, ideas and art of our times. We are still proud to be publishing the best and brightest writers about the broadest range of books and ideas. And we believe that the audience to read it is larger, and hungrier for information, than at any point in the last 116 years. Every week you’ll find over 40 reviews and essays, from Shakespeare to Schopenhauer, popular theatre to political theory. According to Le Monde, the Times Literary Supplement “has no rivals”. According to Noam Chomsky, it is “provocative, stimulating, irritating, informative”. To anybody interested in the life of the mind, the TLS is indispensable.

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In this week′s TLS, in the wake of the latest Matrix film, Kieran Setiya reviews "Reality +" by David J. Chalmers, one of the films′ philosophy consultants. Chalmers has written a book in which he seriously considers whether we are already all in a computer simulation, and wonders whether that would make any difference to the quality and value of human life. In the rest of the paper we roam from the troubled presidency of Barak Obama to the history of Granada, from Rothschild women to the homilies of Origen. Lauren Arrington discovers unpublished and unknown poems by the Irish modernist poet Thomas MacGreevy, and disentangles the influence on him of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and - most significantly - W. B. Yeats′s wife George. Ian Sansom goes to see a Philip Glass opera and witnesses fisticuffs in the darkness of the Upper Circle.