The TLS, circulation 35,204, founded in 1902, may be the only paper that can be counted upon for consistently brilliant commentary. It also has the widest range of any publication I've ever read. It calls itself literary but that's barely the beginning. The contributors write with easy authority on archeology and politics, on the stars of show business and the heroes of war, on opera, entomology, architecture, painting, astronomy, religion and anything else that swims within range of the human imagination. It's the go-to paper for those who like to be up to date on the latest theories of Renaissance poetry, military strategy or beekeeping.
Typically, a TLS reviewer uses the appearance of a new book to set down an essay (brilliant, searching or chatty, as the occasion demands) on a recent twist in the history of ideas. The approach is resolutely no-brow. In the TLS we can read about Steven Spielberg as well as Ezra Pound, about Roy Orbison as well as Seamus Heaney.
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