TLS C:
The Times Literary Supplement turned 100 this week. Considered the best critical journal in the English language, the TLS has published 30-50 reviews (about triple that of the New York Times Book Review) of fiction , non-fiction and poetry, once a week for a century. Its contributors (invitation only) reads like an all star team of 20th century literature: T.S. Elliot, Virginia Woolf, Anthony Burgess, Gore Vidal. Although the paper is owned by the Times of London (and it by Satan himself Rupert Murdoch), the parent company has largely left its venerable spawn alone. It has thus ticked along as a haven for wise critical thought, an idea out of fashion and barely in gnat-like attention span universe of today.
So happy birthday TLS. I’ve just bough my first issue, your Centenary. Looking forward to getting to know you.