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Blood and water

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Published: 09 June 2006
History

Revolution. By RuthScurr. 388pp. Chatto and Windus. Pounds 20. 0 7011 7600 8 The French Revolutionary Louis de Saint-Just once remarked: “The words we have spoken will never be forgotten on earth”. He was right, although we continue to debate what they mean. This is very much the...

Books of the year 2015

Published: 25 November 2015
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We ope you enjoy this piece from the TLS, which is available every Thursday in print and via the TLS app. This week’s issue also includes: Rodin’s collaboration with catastrophe; how the brain sees; Jonathan Coe’s tour de force; hope for the future of the Jews?; war and the Raj – and much...

A friendless Robespierre

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Published: 07 June 2006
History

RuthScurrFATAL PURITYRobespierre and the French Revolution304pp. Chatto and Windus. £20.0 701 17600 8 The French Revolutionary Louis de Saint-Just once remarked: The words we have spoken will never be forgotten on earth. He was right, although we continue to debate what they mean. This...

Books of the year

Published: 25 November 2015
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A friendless Robespierre

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Published: 07 June 2006
History

RuthScurr FATAL PURITY Robespierre and the French Revolution 304pp. Chatto and Windus. £20. 0 701 17600 8...

In this week’s TLS

Published: 25 November 2015
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Thecat on our cover this week is for the author of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats – also for Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue whose two-volume Poems of T. S. Eliot: The annotated text is the Book of the Year chosen by the greatest number of our contributors this year. That number may only...

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Published: 25 November 2015
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Ingenious John Evelyn’s diary

Ruth Scurr

Published: 28 February 2007
Biography

...subject of posterity, as on so many others, I suspect he was ambivalent. _________________________________________________________ RuthScurr is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge . Her book Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution was published last year.

Literary Criticism

Ruth Scurr

Published: 20 April 2001
Literature & Poetry

Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, or in those of their critics? Is it true that Britain is still so culturally and intellectually suspicious of Roman Catholics that an outstanding artist must be rescued from the Faith before she can be included in the Canon? RuthScurr...

Exiles in Bloomsbury

Ruth Scurr

Published: 14 September 2011
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...novel. Her previous book, Stasiland: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall (2003), was an important work of investigative journalism. Funder’s turn to fiction is driven by the desire to tell the story of her friend RuthWesemann. The two women, born over half a century apart, were friends in...

Biography

Ruth Scurr

Published: 28 October 2015
Biography

...“Fe people love the writings of Sir Thomas Browne”, Virginia Woolf wrote, “but those who do are the salt of the Earth.” “Who would not want to join this elite?”, the journalist Hugh Aldersey-Williams asks, and his new book is an enjoyable recruitment drive for the fan club.

The making of a Puritan

Jessie Childs

Published: 14 October 2015
History

It is good to see seventeenth-century antiquaries have their day. Earlier this year, RuthScurr pulled off the remarkable rescue of John Aubrey from the pages of his Brief Lives. Now, J. Sears McGee, Professor of History at the University of California, has turned the lens on Sir...

Enter John Aubrey

Stuart Kelly

Published: 25 February 2015
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We ope you enjoy this free piece from the TLS, which is available every Thursday in print and via the TLS app. This week’s issue also features Walter Benjamin’s disembodied sexuality, Barbara Graziosi on shameless dogs and gods in ancient Greece, Galen Strawson on the philosophy behind Tom...

Reviled and revered of Cambridge

Ruth Scurr

Published: 28 January 2015
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We ope you enjoy this free piece from the TLS, which is available every Thursday in print and via the TLS app. This week’s issue also features Thomas Pynchon adapted for the big screen, a necessary reappraisal of Mo Yan, a new poem by John Ashbery, Lisa Hilton’s Good Queen Bess – and much...

Andrea Levy’s islands

Ruth Scurr

Published: 10 December 2014
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We ope you enjoy this free piece from the TLS, which is available every Thursday in print and via the TLS app. This week’s issue has Edmund White on the daemons of Tennessee Williams, Jonathan Benthall on religion and the roots of violence, David Wootton on forensic Shakespeare, and much...

To see and be seen

Ruth Scurr

Published: 20 August 2014
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We ope you enjoy this free piece from the TLS, which is available every Thursday in print and via the TLS app. This week’s summer double issue also features a Life of Eleanor Marx, an epic history of the Congo, Seamus Heaney – one year on, blood-drenched fables, everyday maths, an honourable...

The TLS at the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature

Published: 03 September 2015
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Thi year at Cheltenham, join Peter Stothard, Editor of the TLS, and other TLS writers and editors as they discuss history, new fiction and landmark poetry:...

Present-day Pre-Raphaelite

Ruth Scurr

Published: 25 June 2014
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In he twenty-one years since the publication of her first collection of short stories, Love Your Enemies (1993), Nicola Barker has created one of the most eccentric ever English fictional universes: peopled by misfits and freaks; encompassing unloved places such as Luton, Ashford and the Isle...

In this week’s TLS

Published: 25 February 2015
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Fewphilosophy students in the 1970s could avoid being asked “what is it like to be a bat?” and, as Galen Strawson recalls this week, Thomas Nagel’s answer to his own question on the nature of consciousness became “one of the most cited papers in all philosophy”. Strawson is setting out some...

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Published: 25 February 2015
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Trinity’s Chapel history

Ruth Scurr

Published: 09 April 2014
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Whe Peter the Great visited Oxford in 1698, he spent scarcely a quarter of an hour among the rarities in the Ashmolean Museum before heading for nearby Trinity College. In 1691 the old “infirme and Ruinous” Gothic chapel of Trinity, originally dedicated in 1410, had been demolished, then...

Izaak Walton’s complete Compleat Angler

Ruth Scurr

Published: 26 February 2014
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Izak Walton (1593–1683) is remembered as the author of The Compleat Angler, the second-most reprinted book in English after the King James Bible. He was also a pioneer of modern biography, celebrated by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, writing most notably the Lives of John Donne and George...

The facts of life

Ruth Scurr

Published: 25 February 2005
Fiction

...at the edge of a field in Norfolk. She has recently lost her lover, Tommy, an old school friend. Earlier, she lost Ruth another friend from school. Tommy and Ruth had slow, stoical deaths, and Kath knows she will follow them soon. Inescapable death, loss, the destruction or...

Mantel’s Cromwell on stage

Ruth Scurr

Published: 15 January 2014
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Hilry Mantel has worked closely with the RSC on the adaptation of her Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012) for the stage. In her detailed Notes on Characters, newly published with Mike Poulton’s play scripts, she evokes the historical figures she has...

In this week’s TLS

Published: 12 August 2015
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Bioraphy, writes Sean O’Brien, makes hypocrites of us all – by (sometimes) rewarding a prurience it has itself inspired. He commends Young Eliot, the first volume of a new biography of the poet by Robert Crawford, for not doing either. Crawford portrays a man who was both spider and fly in...

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