Critical Times: The History of the Times Literary Supplement

Published by HarperCollins (UK), 2001, hardcover, illustrated, index, 606 pages, 16.5 cms x 23.8 cms x 5.6 cms, closed tear to dustjacket, inscription to endpaper otherwise condition: very good.

For one hundred years, from its tenuous beginnings in 1902, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, has been home to an astonishing assemblage of outstanding writers, each working against the backdrop of their times. During the First World War, with the paper reflecting on the rightness of the conflict, regular contributors included Virginia Woolf (then Miss A.V. Stephen) and the young T.S. Eliot. By the Second World War, the paper was articulating views on Nazi Germany, with commentators like George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh. Today, the TLS continues to hold up a mirror to literature, politics, and society. Derwent Maycolumnist for THE TIMESlooks at the controversies, the jests, the quarrels, the court cases. A fascinating, skillfully illuminated chronicle of a century of distinguished journalism.