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Nell Gwyn by Sir Peter Lely, c1765

Rochester's salacious textual history

Poems by the Earl of Rochester which severely test his editors - and tried the patience of his King

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Fossil drawings
John Aubrey and the roots of the Royal Society

Aubrey's lifelong interests in experimental science

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Gerard Woodward's narratives of consumption

Engrossing fiction in the pluperfect tense

Edwin Morgan

Edwin Morgan, 1920–2010

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C is for Carrefax (and Continental Theory)

Does Tom McCarthy's new novel C deserve to have been long-listed for this year's Man Booker Prize?

Robert Browning caricatured by Max Beerbohm

Parody, the vile art

An excellent new anthology takes Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and others down a peg

Tim Parks in pain

A writer's bodily agonies reflected the changes he needed to make in his life as a whole

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The Stratford Jester by James Butler

Shakespeare's dancing Fool

Did William Kemp live on as ‘Lady Hunsdon’s Man’?

A Gun for Palestine (detail) by Laila Shawa

Israel, Palestine and Melanie Phillips

Can constructive engagement solve the problems of the West's relations with Islam, and Israel with Palestine?

Kate Atkinson and the lost girls

Atkinson's characters battle with life even as they try to mend it, in the fourth Jackson Brodie novel

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Voyage Dans La Lune, directed by George Melies

H. G. Wells, the futurity man

A new biography records the extraordinary achievements of this hyperactive everyman and shows for the first time how completely Wells was a man of his time

Miranda Raison as Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn at the Globe

Howard Brenton and the Bard – and John Fletcher – revisit the King’s Great Matter

Animal rights rights and wrongs

Both sides of the animal rights debate suffer from muddied thinking and subjective woolliness

TLS Poetry Competition 2010 Winners

The winners of this year’s poetry competition, adjudicated by Alan Jenkins, Poetry editor of the TLS, and Alice Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America

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