In The Times Literary Supplement for June 26: D.S. Lahti on James Bryce; Molly Ringwald on 'Last Tango in Paris'; Sappho on Lesbos, Homer on Marge and Marge on Odysseus, Genesis on Adam, Jethro Catullus on AQVALVNG, Sitting on A Park Bench, &c.

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In its issue for June 26, 2026, The Times Literary Supplement (London and, once a year or so, q.v., Marquette), leads its Letters page with the thirteenth installment of "DSL. in the TLS" (1998-; paywall-free this time 'cos, as the kids at YouTube say, "First!"),  a series as irregular as its author and that of this email, as the cast of characters in my, I mean his, archive therein might indicate: Robert Alter, John Birch, John Cleese, Robert Crumb, Donald Duck, Umberto Eco, George Eliot, Encounter magazine, G-d, The Brothers Grimm, Henry Hazlitt, Eric Hobsbawm, Eric Idle, Janis Joplin, Stanley Kubrick, John Lukacs, marmalade, Paul McCartney, H.L. Mencken, Ludwig von Mises, Eadweard Muybridge, the nanny state, Robert Nisbet, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Salman Rushdie, Friedrich Schiller, George Steiner, Mario Vargas Llosa - and Jules Verne as Le Beavre. 

"So [said the doctor]. Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?" - The "PUNCH LINE" closing Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

Today's Special at The Breakfast Club: Molly McButter
Also in its June 26 number, the TLS reviews My Cousin Maria Schneider (misrendered in its info box - perhaps till I go three for three in my recent corrections to, e.g., its photo captions and now this - as Vanessa Schneider, its author) by Vanessa Schneider, whose late subject, of course, was the female lead opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. Translator?

Translated by Molly Ringwald

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Don't you forget about her, O Ye of Simple Minds! The book is, assures the reviewer (along with Deborah Harry, atop the front cover: "Lovingly written"), "elegantly translated from French into English by the 1980s Brat Pack star Molly Ringwald."
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