This week's TLS website offerings

most notably include M. John Harrison on David Mitchell's latest (fact-checker has missed several obvious errors in this one): makes me think how unusual it is for a major novel by a British writer to be published some weeks earlier in the US than the UK, it is disconcerting only now to be getting the big guns coming through at the British periodicals--in the age of internet book-reviewing and book-purchasing, it would make much the most sense for big books to get simultaneous release in the major English-language markets.