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BiographyDecember 5, 2012
A Dash for It: On Lisa Cohen
The unconventional story of three women and their unconventional lives in the early twentieth century.
Ruth Scurr
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HistoryApril 16, 2010
To Curse and Fume
As our own yellow press goes from strength to strength, what can the history of slander and libel teach us?
Ruth Scurr
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HistoryJuly 29, 2009
Stolen Youth: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin
The French Revolution as seen from Versailles.
Ruth Scurr
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HistoryNovember 6, 2008
Bloodstained Ghosts: The Children of Revolutionary France
Robert Gildea examines France between the revolution and World War I.
Ruth Scurr
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FictionMay 22, 2008
Searching for Traces
There was little enthusiasm for revisiting the camps in Communist Hungary. Author Imre Kertész refracts that reluctance in fictional form.
Ruth Scurr
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HistoryNovember 21, 2007
Terra Incognita
A mosaic of anecdotes and historical snapshots surveys the sociological diversity of France, past and present.
Ruth Scurr
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HistoryJanuary 18, 2007
Savage Wars of Peace
Ruth Scurr reviews The First Total War, a study of Napoleonic France that illuminates the causes of all-out war.Ruth Scurr