The Times Literary Supplement, Issue 5798, 16 May 2014






Marc Robinson contributes "To shoot and keep cats", pp. 12-13, a review of William S. Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles. 

At page 16 is an excerpt of a review by John Willett of Naked Lunch and The Ticket That Exploded published previously in the 14 November 1963 issue.

Published in London, England by The Times Literary Supplement Ltd. in May 2014.

This copy was acquired from the collection of Peter Lennon (Chicago, Illinois, US).

Bibliographic Information: 

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  • Raven 20140516TTLS.0.5798
Selected Contents: 
  • Joel Isaac: "Cabinets and Kings" (review of Essays and Reviews 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams)
  • Holly Hopkins: "England, where did you go?" (poetry)
  • letters
  • Eric Naiman: "A difficult thing" (review of ...Ya Prozhil Zhin by Andrei Platonov)
  • Joseph Brodsky: "1st September 1939" (poetry)
  • Wendy Slater: "Letters from Moscow" (review of A Spy in the Archives by Sheila Fitzpatrick)
  • Clare Griffiths: "Water before toothpaste" (review of Eric Ravilious by Alan Powers)
  • Marc Robinson: "To shoot and keep cats" (review of William S. Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles)
  • Ritchie Robertson: "Pursuits of beauty" (combined review of Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes by Jeffrey Meyers and Deaths in Venice by Philip Kitcher)
  • Clive James: "Loves in a life" (essay)
  • Eva Griffith: "Playing indoors" (essay)
  • Jennie Feldman: "Freelance" (essay)
  • John Willett: "Mr. Burroughs' Porridge" (review of The Naked Lunch and The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs, originally published 14 November 1963)
  • Heather Wiebe: "Oedipus direct" (review Thebans by Julian Anderson and Frank McGuinsess)
  • Patrick McCaughey: "Expression suppressed" (combined reviews of books on "Degenerate Art")
  • David Collard: "He do the Police" (review of Vanishing by Gerald Woodward)
  • E. L. Kirchner: "A Group of Artists" (painting)
  • Alison Kelly: "A different kind of attention" (review of Orfeo by Richard Powers)
  • Sam Solnick: "The shard in the heart" (review of The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham)
  • Zaheer Kazmi: "Sects, school and Salafism" (review of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought by Gerhard Bowering, ed.)
  • Eric J. Iannelli: "Fans of women in prison" (combined review of Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses by Chris Nashawaty and Edgar G. Ulmer by Noah Isenberg)
  • Kathryn Hughes: "Silly novels" (review of Before George Eliot by Fionnuala Dillane)
  • David Malcolm: "Death grip" (review of The Short Story and the First World War by Ann-Marie Einhaus)
  • John Fletcher: "In a sweet tin" (combined review of Claude Simon à New York by Lucien Dällenbach and Œuvres II and Le Vent by Claude Simon)
  • Ingrid Wassenaar: "Under the grass" (review of Mirages and Mad Beliefs by Christopher Prendergast)
  • Neil Gregor: "How good was Goerdeler?" (review of Carl Goerdeler gegen die Verfolgung der Juden by Peter Hoffman)
  • short book reviews
  • Catherine Wilson: "Prince of tact" (combined review of The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter by Steven Nadler and Descartes' Meditations by Karen Detlefsen, ed.)
  • Hallvard Lillehammer: "Trolleyologists" (combined review of Would You Kill the Fat Man? by David Edmonds and The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy off the Bridge? by Thomas Cathcart)
  • Chris Skidmore: "Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown" (review of Merchant Adventures by James Evans)
  • Tadzio Koelb: "Advertising" (combined review of Gauguin by Starr Figura, ed. and the Gauguin exhibition at MoMA)
  • J. C.: "Fighting Terms" (essay)
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