From TLS, a review of The RSC Shakespeare; a review of The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection by Janine Burke; a review of The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney by Michael Barrier and Walt Disney: The biography by Neal Gabler; and fifty years after the TLS ran a symposium on "committed literature" around the world, a look back on the late Harold Beaver's piece on writers in the United States – and their obsession with self-definition. The Future of Gonzo: Hunter S. Thompson's widow Anita tries moving the celebrated writer's legacy forward. From Sign and Sight, "Richness, beauty, horror": An interview with Walter Kempowski on his autobiographical literature, his life as a writer and his activities as a people collector. Japan's Prodigal Novelist Returns: Haruki Murakami, writer of things foreign, has

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