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Samuel Graydon reviews two new albums, by the folk troubadour Sam Lee and indie rock band Cornershop, both of which offer innovative and intelligent musical perspectives on modern England; the TLS’s arts editor Lucy Dallas presents this month’s ‘Audio/Visual’, a monthly round-up of listening and watching; Josephine Livingstone grapples with the 'omnivore paradox' in the arts sector: why broader tastes in art have not led to wider participation
Featured works
Old Wow by Sam Lee
England is a Garden by Cornershop
Audio: ‘Reply All’, the podcast
Visual: ‘Five Guys a Week’, Channel 4
Entitled: Discriminating tastes and the expansion of the arts by Jennifer C. Lena
Steal as Much as You Can: How to win the culture wars in an age of austerity by Nathalie Olah
Smashing It: Working class artists on life, art and making it happen, edited by Sabrina Mahfouz
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Tim Parks talks us through the lockdown from Milan; A. N. Wilson explains the Prayer Book Controversy of the 1920s, and why it's a bit like Brexit; and Anna Girling looks back on the - failed - poetic and critical career of Richard Aldington
Richard Aldington, Two volumes, by Vivien Whelpton
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Frances Wilson gets implausibly angry about the hypocrisy of Patrick O’Brian; Michèle Roberts makes the case for the forgotten author of the nineteenth century, George Sand; Miranda Seymour turns literary detective to identify a new work by Ada Lovelace. And Roz Dineen fails to be enticed by cakes.
Romans 1 & 2 George Sand; Edited by José-Luis Diaz and Brigitte Diaz
Patrick O’Brian – A very private life Nikolai Tolstoy
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Edmund Gordon discusses whether Hilary Mantel's final Cromwell novel lives up to its billing - and whether, at 900-odd pages, it is the right length; Muriel Zagha looks at the female gaze in French cinema, with respect to the new film Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Irina Dumitrescu talks about how to write well, and when to break the rules
The Mirror & the Light, by Hilary Mantel
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, by Céline Sciamma
Why They Can't Write, by John Warner
Writing to Persuade, by Trish Hall
Every Day I Write the Book, by Amitava Kumar
First You Write a Sentence, by Joe Moran
Meander, Spiral, Explode, by Jane Alison
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James Shapiro, the author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, discusses the history of West Side Story, the most popular and successful Shakespeare musical of all time, and Ivo van Hove's flawed Broadway adaptation; Toby Lichtig reviews Tom Stoppard's new play Leopoldstadt and talks us through a selection of Jewish-focused pieces in this week's issue of the TLS; David Horspool, the TLS's history editor and a keen consumer of audiobooks, tells us what he has been listening to this month
West Side Story, directed by Ivo van Hove
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard, Wyndham's Theatre, London, until June 13
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Rebecca Langlands on lessons learnt in the only known ancient Roman brothel; Caroline Moorehead reviews Elena Ferrante's latest novel; Rory Waterman reads a new poem, "Defences" ("'Crikey!' you say. 'It’s gorgeous!'...")
Books:
The Brothel of Pompeii: Sex, class, and gender at the margins of Roman society, by Sarah Levin-Richardson
La vita bugiarda degli adulti, by Elena Ferrante
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Is it the best of times or the worst of times to be a satirist? Madeleine Brettingham, a writer on the BBC's News Quiz, joins us to discuss; Toby Lichtig on a new production of Endgame and the constraints imposed on Samuel Beckett adaptations; founded in the 1960s, the Oulipo was – and remains – a group of writers and scientists striving for "potential literature". Anna Aslanyan considers the movement's legacy
March of the Lemmings: Brexit in print and performance 2016–2019, by Stewart Lee
The Joke is On Us: Political comedy in (late) neoliberal times, edited by Julie A. Webber
Endgame / Rough For Theatre II, at the Old Vic theatre, London
The Oulipo and Modern Thought, by Dennis Duncan
All that is Evident is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963–2018, edited and translated by Daniel Levin Becker and Ian Monk
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Caryl Emerson on Tolstoy’s art, ideas and life, and the extent to which these came together; Benjamin Markovits returns to a treasured childhood book: The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook; Eve Babitz – a “fizzy”, “fabulous” chronicler of 1960s and 70s Los Angeles – is mid revival. Megan Marz fills us in.
Lives and Deaths: Essential stories by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Boris Dralyuk
Leo Tolstoy: A very short introduction by Liza Knapp
Leo Tolstoy by Andrei Zorin
The Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook by Gary Gygax
I Used To Be Charming: The rest of Eve Babitz, edited by Sara J. Kramer
Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A., by Lili Anolik
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Lucy Dallas reports on theories, developments and disputes in the world of science fiction; Lawrence Douglas adds crucial historical context – stretching back to the Middle Ages, in fact – to the current US presidential impeachment; the poet Hannah Sullivan emerges from Princeton University Library with fresh insight into T. S. Eliot's love letters
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula Le Guin
The Expanse, Volumes 1–8, by James S. A. Corey
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Did Byron have an eating disorder? Mummy issues? Daddy issues? Does it matter? Emily A. Bernhard Jackson joins us to discuss; Stanley Donwood, the artist and designer of Radiohead's record covers, makes the case for this most democratic of artforms; Keith Miller on the work of the designer and architect Charlotte Perriand, a high-minded high modernist whose life spanned the whole of the twentieth century
The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie
Charlotte Perriand: Complete works, by Jacques Barsac
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Sanam Maher looks at how Muslim women are viewed in the West; Claire Lowdon finds puzzles and philosophy but no pleasure in J. M. Coetzee's recent work; Alan Jenkins explains the significance of the recently opened archive of T. S. Eliot's letters; Jeffrey Wainwright reads his poem "If all this did begin"
Books
From Victims to Suspects: Muslim women since 9/11 by Shakira Hussein
It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race, edited by Mariam Khan
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
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Sam Graydon grapples with quantum physics and the subatomic world; Elaine Showalter considers the 'startlingly racy, contradictory, emblematic' E. Nesbit, the 'first modern writer for children'; Which out-of-print books should be back in circulation and why? Roz Dineen presents the results of a TLS symposium
Books
Six Impossible Things: The ‘quanta of solace’ and the mysteries of the subatomic world, by John Gribbin
Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The search for what lies beyond the quantum, by Lee Smolin
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘The Railway Children’, by Eleanor Fitzsimons
The Extraordinary Life of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘Five Children and It’ and ‘The Railway Children’, by Elisabeth Galvin
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TLS editors gather to consider some of the decade’s major cultural shifts and events, with specialist insights from Mary Beard on academia, Beejay Silcox on fiction and Zoe Williams on gender
Go to the-tls.co.uk for the full twelve-page retrospective.
For the competition, Barbican membership Terms and Conditions can be found here: https://www.barbican.org.uk/join-support/membership#faqs. The competition closes December 31, 2019. Good luck.
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A newly discovered, pseudonymously signed mock-letter to the editor of 'The Lady’s Magazine' in 1823 tells the story of a wannabe writer who is visited by the "gentle spirit of Miss Austen". Not only might the letter offer new information on what Austen might actually have been like, says Devoney Looser, it is also the first piece of Jane Austen-inspired fan fiction; Anna Picard discusses the poet Anne Boyer’s memoir of modern illness and considers the intersections of literature and cancer; Jonathan Lynn shares memories of adventures with his cousin Oliver Sacks
For more on the Jane Austen story, go to www.the-tls.co.uk
'The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care' by Anne Boyer
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