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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.
Penelope Fitzgerald's loves and letters
A sunken houseboat, an abandoned biography, a jam-making grandmother who was also a writer of genius
No time for Shakespeare
Only the exceptional account of a visit to Auschwitz offers relief from Jeremy Lewis' literary anecdotage
A joyous Paul Auster
Auster's new novel is artistically life-affirming: postmodernism, for once, with a pulse
Wolff at the door
How Tobias Wolff is crafting the future of America's national artform - the short story
Nazism's dialectic of death
How Hitler tried to form an empire by killing rather than converting
The Gods of New Spain
In the conquest of pre-Christian America, the traffic between late-medieval beliefs and local religions was not all one-way
Anniversaries at the Proms
Who's in, who's out, who's still got it – and who never had it in the first place
Mahler triumphant
A great composer nears the end of a great biographical voyage
Russian bombs, Georgian fragments
A timely new book attempts the impossible: a history of the Caucasus
States of terror, states of consent
Philip Bobbitt's strategic transnational politics for the twenty-first century
Physics is fun!
A whirligig tour of scientific fundamentals makes an appeal to intellectual enjoyment
Storms over stem cells
The biology and politics of a true scientific revolution
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