Boyd Tonkin states the case – never overstated – for literature in translation, and reviews a commendable recent effort "to grasp, and to survey, the entire planet of words"; Andrew Scull considers the travails of social psychology and the egos and experiments that professed to tell us something essential about human nature by setting fire to forests or electrocuting dogs...
Books
Found in Translation: 100 of the finest short stories ever translated, edited by Frank Wynne
The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment by Gina Perry
The Hope Circuit: A psychologist’s journey from helplessness to optimism by Martin Seligman
Oscar Wilde and the Chatterton myth
Henry James in the TLS
Mary Beard
Jane Austen's Emma
"Tea at the Midland" by David Constantine
Jacob Tonson's poets
John Donne
Vertigo
Douglas Oliver: a poetic vision of the body politic
J.H. Prynne: an examination of imagery
Summer Holidays
Cycling: tour de force
Tennis: Game, Sex and Match
John Fletcher
Christine Brooke-Rose
Waterloo
Byron
Anthony Trollope
Hermione Lee discusses Virginia Woolf
Ruth Scurr discusses John Aubrey and the art of writing biography
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