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Saturday October 11, 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.
Back in Bulgaria
Kapka Kassabova revisits the country of her childhood, and finds its ugliness transfigured
How not to raise a child
Julia Blackburn's memoir of growing up with an alcoholic father and a sex-mad mother
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
Will Self's London livers
Four more tales of the grotesque, strong drink and acid words
Realism from Brazil
The genius of Machado de Assis, Rio de Janeiro's laureate of irony
Hitler in the driving seat
Richard J. Evans's comprehensive account of the Third Reich exposes its myths and how it came to believe in them
A Habsburg loser and the New Europe
A reckless, bisexual, playboy prince and his campaign to create an independent Ukraine
The Archbishop's Dostoevsky
Why Rowan Williams is the best man for the job – of appreciating the greatness of Dostoevsky
The start of Alan Sillitoe
How Sillitoe stood apart from the tradition of Northern novelists going soft and successful in the South
The genius of Gershwin and co
The men who wrote the Great American Songbook – and the particle collider on Tin Pan Alley
Anniversaries at the Proms
Who's in, who's out, who's still got it – and who never had it in the first place
Discontent in Downing Street
How Labour lost power last time, as seen by an insider: the Prime Minister's Senior Political Adviser
Russian bombs, Georgian fragments
A timely new book attempts the impossible: a history of the Caucasus
What the West makes of Chinese science
Early China's scientific achievements and Joseph Needham, their controversial advocate
Babies and the sticky mitten test
How babies of only three months can learn to have a theory of mind
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