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Thursday January 8, 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.
Down home with Warren Buffett
Does the Oracle of Omaha, with his folksy philosophy and his cult following, merit a 900-page biography?
Shakespeare and deep England
Jonathan Bate's eloquent evocation of the man from Warwickshire
Noisy, smelly, excavated Pompeii
A Roman town and Mary Beard's historical balancing act
Satirists thick and thin
From Juvenal to Armando Iannucci, satire is an ancient and necessary art
The many deaths of Roberto Bolaño
How a brave Chilean poet became a cult novelist and chronicler of the apocalypse
What was the GDR?
New fiction from Germany looks back to the towers and the traumas of the post-war period
Surveying London
Why the city, in all its oddity and variety, deserves the full encyclopedic treatment
The end of journalism
There have always been reporters, but will there always be professionals?
Shakespeare and deep England
Jonathan Bate's eloquent evocation of the man from Warwickshire
Emily Dickinson and other hummingbirds
When Newness came to America, and Martin Johnson Heade went to the Hotel Ponce de Leon
The court of Benjamin Britten
Why the composer's letters are fascinating, despite their lack of literary brilliance
The genius of Gershwin and co
The men who wrote the Great American Songbook – and the particle collider on Tin Pan Alley
The new anti-Semitism?
How ancient prejudice and outright hostility have re-emerged since the Nuremberg Trials
Lunch with Mrs Thatcher
Peter Stothard reviews Hugo Young's exceptional records of politicians speaking their minds
Longitude forged
How an eighteenth-century hoax has taken in Dava Sobel and other historians
What the West makes of Chinese science
Early China's scientific achievements and Joseph Needham, their controversial advocate
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