Times Literary Supplement

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/

Consistently one of the best journals with an eclectic and broad scope of interest: e.g.

Woolworth's shrine to commerce

It was the tallest building in the world, "beautiful beyond description", in the eyes of its owner - but the Woolworth Building in New York, was built at a time when scientists and urban planners were perhaps just as radically trying to transform other parts of the world. P. D. Smith takes stock of the "techno-cities" and their legacy.

The unfinished Sissinghurst

Vita Sackville-West's grandson Adam Nicolson lives in Sissinghurst Castle, the family home, but it is now a National Trust property. Is it the better for that? Jennifer Potter traces the varied life and uncertain future of Sissinghurst and the garden Sackville-West made there, as well as the role gardens have played in a less recent period of English history.

Edward Carpenter, father of the twenty-first century

Why hasn't there been a biography of Edward Carpenter, a Victorian who championed sex reform, environmentalism and animal rights, until now? Now it has been written, as Martin Pugh argues, it gives us "not just an account of one remarkable individual's life, but also helps to explain how we have evolved into the society we are today".

The Paradox

Who Was Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton did not become a Roman Catholic until 1922, but his religious ideas had progressed long ago in that direction. A. N. Wilson assesses the new evidence for Chesterton's intellectual development.