Adam Sutcliffe: Olga Tokarczuk's false Messiah | Steven E. Aschheim: Arendt and Berlin | Frances Wilson: Tessa Hadley's Swinging Sixties | Abigail Green: The Rothschild women | Are you for real? Kieran Setiya asks whether we live in a Matrix-like simulation
Broke, dry and shivering in January, TLS readers might wish that reality, simulated or otherwise, would just go away. But stop right there. If our lives are a computer simulation, then to switch the programme off would be a crime as horrible as physical murder