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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.
Norman Lewis: travelling salesman
Runaway cars, underwater cameras, mafia secrets, and the wickedness of empire
Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranks
A new biography of one of the great War Poets reveals him to be an admirable figure
The many ages of Herodotus
Herodotus as good neighbour, warmonger, narrative syncopator and the first great artist of Greek prose
How to read Cicero's gobbets
A new study shows both the good and the bad side of the discipline of ancient history
Clive Sinclair's po-mo Wild West
Cowboys of every description figure in this foray into Creative Nonfiction - or Dodgy Realism
A fictive family history of China
Little Hut of Leaping Fishes has the breadth and balance of a great nineteenth-century novel
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
The Second World War in Italy: was it worth it?
The folly and brutality of war, from Sicily to the Po Valley
Et in Arcadia Shakespeare
The grandson of Vita Sackville-West traces an English dream of perfection
Prokofiev in his own words
The composer's diaries, rescued and decoded from the Soviet archives, reveal ceaseless work and words as polished as his music
Classical music's twentieth-century tragedy
How music and politics combined to devastating effect in Germany and the USSR
America, Iraq and poison gas
A remarkable moratorium on chemical weapons held until the 1980s, when Saddam Hussein turned them on his countrymen
Fair play for the CIA
We must not forget that the CIA was formed in an era of civic trust and patriotism
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
The great Greek race odyssey
Doing good and telling the truth: how ancient Africa exposed the illusions of black and white
People, plants and the British psyche
Hybrids, passions and discoveries abound in these explorations of that peculiarly British obsession, plants and gardens
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