Why you need a ‘No’ hat, rethinking the economic wisdom of ‘necessary luxuries’, restoring financial power to the people, and lessons learned from teaching prisoners to read
Africa’s 17th-century warrior queen; the modern equivalent of tinkering in your shed; mergers and acquisitions in the world of HE; and what tax havens really do to the economy
Guide for a scientific career, suitable for ages 8 and up; the cultural temperature of ‘climate’; on why gender inequality is still with us; and the Russian Revolution from below
With wit and frankness, rebel scientist Tommaso Dorigo has spent a dozen years telling it like it is in his blog about research life. He speaks to Karen Shook
A fresh run at Homer; unseen dirty work; all the lols of yoof-speak; and the link between Ayn Rand’s bad thoughts, worse writing and financial catastrophe
Tomes deserving of your time include our island story in art, rescuing religion from jihadis and Islamophobes, going to town on an egg and a veritable word-fest
This week’s bookish things to do: brush up your Shakespeare, explore a mother of a holiday, put paid to the rentiers and count the cost of London’s Olympics
The scholar of international relations and author of Holidays in the Danger Zone on misplaced nostalgia, foreign encounters and the allure of ‘dark tourism’
Hey presto! This week’s books to astonish and enlighten survey modern magic in Asia, physics with a feminist focus, the work of Elizabeth Bishop and the museum as creative spark
The church historian and author of All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation on the journey from E. Nesbit to Ian Kershaw and the comforting certainties of detective fiction
