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Friday July 10, 2009
TLS Selections
TLS Selections
Welcome to the TLS Selections, our pick of the best recent TLS articles, in every subject. To browse, please click on your chosen subject in the TLS Selections dropdown menu on the right.
Claude Lanzmann's liberated memories
Opinions of a journalist who was one of Simone de Beauvoir's lovers, and a teenage member of the Resistance
Missing pieces
Jigsaw puzzles are comforting, but Margaret Drabble's meditation on them distresses as much as it consoles
Money makes the (Greek) world go round
What the ancient Greek anxiety about money has to tell us about our own economic predicaments
Spinning Caesar's murder
Putting the ideology – and the people – back into our understanding of Roman political life
Sarah Waters's little stranger
The new book by the author of Fingersmith and The Night Watch is more than just a little strange
Hilary Mantel's Henrician hero
How Hilary Mantel's new novel, Wolf Hall, turns Tudor history into a compelling piece of fiction
Stinking, splendid Versailles
The life of a palace noted for its grandeur, expense, symbolic importance and unhygienic residents
Three day week?
Why memories of Britain in the 1970s have a poisoned air about them
A century after Swinburne
Atheist, philhellene, prophet of sexual revolution, Algernon Swinburne was also a master-metrician and a pioneering critic
Is Toad of Toad Hall bipolar?
And other questions that two centenary editions of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows seek to answer
The music of Irish writers
Why has classical music failed to flourish in Ireland, where writers could hardly be more musical?
Middle-class Tom Waits
The great songwriter's early years, capacity for self-pastiche and protection of his privacy
Iran votes again
What is happening in Iran now, after the election, should indelibly change external perceptions of the country and its discontents
William Empson's influence on the CIA
Counterintelligence, argued James Angleton, called for the kind of practical criticism he learned at Yale
Ida, a fossil celebrity
What's so special about the squashed-flat remains of an adapiform from the Messel pit?
The madness of Big Pharma
The new enfant terrible of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical companies' abuse of clinical trials
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