 | December 4, 2008 | | | | Times Literary Supplement BULLETIN | |
THE LEADING PAPER IN THE WORLD FOR LITERARY CULTURE Jean Wilson How to crown an English monarch Christopher Coker Chris Patten's dream John Barnard What books tell us Daniel Mallory At home with the Jameses Welcome to the TLS newsletter, a free preview of the TLS this week.
This week's issue of the TLS  | | Why do we persist in calling car crashes "accidents", when they are so predictable? Why do we build more roads in the hope of reducing congestion, when they in fact tend to have the opposite effect? Traffic is a problem that perhaps will never be solved, as Jon Garvie suggests: "Road fatalities will be the third largest global cause of death by 2020 and more people die each month on American roads than were killed in the September 11 attacks, but where is the war on cars? . . . Driving kills because it is too complicated for our poor brains." |
 | | "Anger makes me write . . . ." From Juvenal to Armando Iannucci, satire is an ancient and necessary art, though one that has often been misunderstood. Michael Silk traces its evolution as far as The Thick of It, by which point abrasive language has taken over from poetic sophistication. |  | | Alan Jenkins suggests how discipline and chaos, suffering and human meat, find beautiful and disturbing expression in the work of Francis Bacon - a survivor of many troubles, and an unusually articulate artist. |
 | | "One rarely saw him without a volume in his hand", Wilde's landlord said of his impoverished, disgraced, recently deceased tenant. A new study gathers together these volumes, or at least what is known of them, and tries to "tell the story of an author's life, and to illuminate it, exclusively through the books that he had read".
In the rest of the paper, you will find rancid pansies, new writing from Norfolk and, of course, In Brief. | commentary Protecting Jane: After Jane Austen's death, her family guarded and shaped her reputation carefully, obscuring whatever did not suit her public image. But there is no protecting Austen's reputation from the evidence of her manuscripts, which have shown the editors of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen that the end of her life was by no means all autumnal maturity and dull piety. Michael Greenberg forgets; and Then and Now, inspired by Thomas Wright's new book about Oscar Wilde, takes stock of Wilde orthodoxy, heresy and evangelism. NB advertises for a new Poet Laureate, encounters American poets writing a novel together, and admires an "L E G". In this week's letters, John Ashbery replies to Jascha Kessler's unhappy memories of W. H. Auden and the Yale Younger Poets; other subjects include Solzhenitsyn's return, and the acronym MOG. arts Detonation's denotation: Joseph Horowitz pays homage to the eloquence of John Adams, on the page and in the auditorium, and compares it with Berlioz's legendary damnation. John Stokes has the time of his life with William Saroyan. In the next issue of the TLS A. E. Harvey
The very first Christmas Donald Rayfield
Principles of Stanislavsky Anthony Kenny
Küng and his Popes Rosemary Ashton
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