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Wednesday December 3, 2008
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.
The It girl and the war hero
What the trigger-happy, book-hating Duchess of Devonshire said to Patrick Leigh Fermor
Lady Worsley on the lash
The scandalous court case between a headstrong aristocrat and her husband,afterwards dubbed "the twelvepenny cuckold"
Thoroughly modern Lucretius
The dizzying psychic liberation offered by Lucretius' epic poem has resounded throughout the centuries
Emperor Hadrian, YouTube hero
A magnificent exhibition at the British Museum shows why the way we look at ancient Rome will never stand still
French outsider fiction
A selection of novels from this year's rentrée littéraire shows French fiction looking beyond its borders
Neal Stephenson, spaceman
Another immense novel from an explorer in science, science fiction and outright fantasy
The end of journalism
There have always been reporters, but will there always be professionals?
Smelly masterpieces
Why is great perfume not taken more seriously?
After the credit crunch – the arts crunch?
Hyperbole and boosterism have obscured the sad truth about the so-called renaissance of the arts in Britain
Pasolini's Roman poetry
The great filmmaker was also a writer with a distinctive voice – Rome's
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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