The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), Issue 4333, 18 April 1986

Adam Mars-Jones contributes “Victims of the mummy’s curse”, a review of William S. Burroughs’ Queer, p. 415.

Published in London, England by The Times Literary Supplement in April 1986.

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Selected Contents:

• Gordon Brotherston: "Songs and sagas of the old New World" (combined review of books on the early native Mexicans)
• F. Fernandez-Armesto: "Navigational problems" (combined review of books on Christopher Columbus)
• Anthony Hartley: "The end of procrastination" (review of The Economic Decline of Modern Britain: The Debate between Left and Right by David Coates and John Hilliard, eds.)
• John Turner: "Political lucky dip" (review of A United Kingdom: An Argument and a Challenge for a Better Britainby David Owen)
• George Szirtes: "Grandfather in Green" (poetry)
• Jeremy Waldron: "Fundamental matters of government" (review of The Changing Constitution by Jeffrey Jowell and Dawn Oliver, eds.)
• Geoffrey Marshall: "Questioning the judiciary" (review of Constitutional Choices by Laurence H. Tribe)
• Murray MacBeath: "Out-rationalizing the rationalists" (review of Mathematical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas R. Hofstadter)
• F. L. Carsten: "Mass sacrifice" (review of Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany by Allan Merson)
• Ian Kershaw: "A question of planning" (review of Prelude to Genocide: Nazi Ideology and the Struggle for Power by Simon Taylor)
• Peter Hebblethwaite: "Pernicious pieties" (review of Theologians under Hitler by Robert P. Ericksen)
• John Clive: "An odd couple" (review of Love in a Cool Climate: The Letters of Mark Pattison and Meta Bradley 1879-1884 by Vivian Green, ed.)
• David Nokes: "Lines of defence" (review of Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman by William McCarthy)
• Humphrey Carpenter: "Even-tempered addenda" (review of More Letters of Oscar Wilde by Rupert Hart-Davis, ed.)
• Adam Mars-Jones: "Victims of the mummy's curse" (review of Queer by William Burroughs)
• Sean French: "The paranoid essence" (review of Found in the Street by Patricia Highsmith)
• Carol Rumens: "Real family life" (review of Tin Toys by Ursula Holden)
• Galen Strawson: "Everything not quite A-OK" (review of Ransom by Jay McInerney)
• Paul Duguid: "Cat and mouse in Wildwood" (review of Pride by William Wharton)
• Lesley Chamberlain: "Passions in Provence" (review of Crossing the Water by Rosalind Brackenbury)
• Anne Boston: "With the vets in Hopewell" (review of In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason)
• Isabel Fonseca: "Convalescence in Colorado" (review of The Lake: Father and Son by Page Edwards)
• Alan Coren: "Bad lad himself" (combined review of Hancock by Freddie Hancock and David Nathan and The Best of Hancock by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson)
• Craig Brown: "Propriety undimmed" (review of The Collected Letters of a Nobody Keith Waterhouse)
• Eric Korn: "Remainders" (essay)
• T. J. Binyon: "The periodicals: Descant" (review of Descant, issue 51, Winter 1985-86)
• letters
• David Robey: "Self-deceivers defeated" (review of Il candelaio by Giordano Bruno)
• David Caute: "A family fix" (review of Flight by David Lan)
• Marina Warner: "With downcast gaze" (review of the Alfred Gilbert exhibition at the Royal Academy)
• Janet Adam Smith: "Scott's Magnum Opus returns" (essay)
• Edward Timms: "From sensuousness to sobriety" (review of Vienne 1880-1938: Naissance d'un siècle exhibition at the Pompidou Centre)
• Alfred Gilbert: self-portrait (painting)
• William Drabkin: "Gathering Beethoven's drift" (review of The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory by Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson, and Robert Winter)
• Arthur Jacobs: "Those who can, teach" (review of The Music Profession in Britain since the Eighteenth Century by Cyril Ehrlich)
• Sarah Whitfield: "From parody to profundity" (review of Picabia by Maria Lluïsa Borràs)
• MaryAnne Stevens: "Part of a revolution" (combined review of books on Toulouse-Lautrec)
• Gino Severino: "Still life with pipe and cards" (painting)
• Philip Conisbee: "A surfeit of fantasy" (review of Gustave Moreau: The Watercolors by Pierre-Louis Matthieu)
• Barry Stroud: "Choices in an unreal world" (review of Selected Papers by J. L. Mackie)
• Troels Engberg-Pedersen: "Doing without caring" (review of Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism by Brad Inwood)
• David Levering Lewis: "Expectations of reform" (review of William Hastle: Grace under Pressure by Gilbert Ware)
• Andrew Sinclair: "Sobering the nation" (review of Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League by K. Austin Kerr)
• Barbara Goodwin: "Another American dream" (review of Technological Utopianism in American Culture by Howard P. Segal)
• P. J. Marshall: "New conquests, new Churches" (review of A History of Christianity in India 1707-1858 by Stephen Neill)
• Darrell Bates: "Conflict of creeds" (review of The Lost Empire: The Story of the Jesuits in Ethiopia 1555-1634 by Philip Caraman)
• R. E. Whyte: "The heathen and the heterodox" (review of Christianity in China: Early Protestant Missionary Writings by Suzanne Wilson Barnett and John King Fairbank, eds.)
• Claire Cross: "Boom years in education" (review of Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII by Maria Dowling)
• Caroline Bingham: "Struggles of a termagant" (review of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots by Patricia Hill Buchanan)
• J. A. Sharpe: "Orderly disorder" (review of Order and Disorder in Early Modern England by Anthony Fletcher and John Stevenson)
• James Lawson Stewart: "The Tower of London from the Thames" (painting)
• William St. Clair: "The universal friend" (combined review of books on Leigh Hunt)
• John Richetti: "In the popular mode" (combined review of Defoe's Fiction by Ian A. Bell and Defoe's Perpetual Seekers: A Study of the Major Fiction by Virginia Ogden Birdsall)
• John Levett: "Here Be Dragons" (poetry)
• Terence Cave: "Commentary – and beyond" (review of L'Arbre et la source by Michel Charles)
• Jenny Penberthy: "Bread, milk, and Mother Goose" (combined review on poetry books)
• Lachlan Mackinnon: "Lines of thought" (review of The Amorous Cannibal by Chris Wallace-Crabbe)
• Wendy James: "On the frontier" (review of Imposing Aid: Emergency Assistance to Refugees by B. E. Harrell-Bond)
• R. G. Frey: "The case for killing" (review of Should the Baby Live?: The Problem of Handicapped Infants by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer)

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