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Tag Archives: TLS
Iris Murdoch Centenary Marked This Week
This week is the 100th anniversary of novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch’s birth in 1919. It will be marked by a Centenary Conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford this weekend (13-15 July). A later conference is scheduled on 10-11 October at the … Continue reading
Summer Solstice Roundup
–A new biography has been written of Lord Beaverbrook, primary model for Lord Copper in Waugh’s novel Scoop. This is reviewed by Richard Davenport-Hines in the current TLS. The review opens with this: There have been previous biographies of the … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Black Mischief, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Vile Bodies
Tagged American Greatness, Amherst College, Charles Reich, Christopher Sykes, Lord Beaverbrook, Mallory's Camera, Theodore Baird, TLS
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Early June Roundup
–In the current issue of TLS, Michael Caines reviews a short book of poetry parodies entitled Poets Cornered by Mark Handley: Via chronological hops the collection proceeds from Chaucer (“to Spayne the pilgrims wende / A wholly blysseful suntanne for … Continue reading
The Art (and Power) of the Book Blurb
In the current issue of the TLS, DJ Taylor addresses in the “Freelance” column “blurb-writing” for book covers and promotional materials. He begins with a discussion of the various considerations brought to bear in composing a successful blurb. These are … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Blurb-writing, Catch-22, DJ Taylor, Muriel Spark, TLS
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Justin Cartwright (1943-2018): R.I.P.
In a recent issue of TLS, DJ Taylor reviews the works of South Africa-born British novelist Justin Cartwright who died late last year in London at 75. He wrote 17 novels (although, as Taylor notes, he disowned some early ones) … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Guardian, Johannesburg Review of Books, Justin Cartwright, TLS
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Roundup: Fleabag and Brexit
—The Times earlier this week carried a review of an ongoing BBC TV series called Fleabag, currently in its 2nd season. The review by Ann Marie Hourihane opens with this: God is what you’ve got left when you’re done with sex; … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged Aldous Huxley, BBC, scoop.co.nz, Selina Hastings, The New Yorker, The Times, TLS
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TLS: “When the Script Hits the Fan”
In this week’s “Freelance” column of the TLS, novelist/critic DJ Taylor takes up the issue of fan letters to writers. He starts by characterizing those he himself has received, extending from the extravagant praiser to the anti-fan via the mildly … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, DJ Taylor, Fan Mail, TLS
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Waugh’s “Hungry Novels” in TLS
Literary journalist and critic Laura Freeman writes in this week’s TLS of a subgenre she defines as the “hungry novels” which flourished in the 1940s-50s. Her essay opens with an extended reference to the scene in Brideshead Revisited where Waugh … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Put Out More Flags, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Hungry Novels, Laura Freeman, TLS
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Wartime TLS
Gale Primary Sources has posted an article about how the TLS managed to thrive in the wartime period 1939-1945 while many other literary publications struggled or died. The article seems to be an extract from a longer work about TLS … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Gale Primary Sources, Horizon, TLS
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