Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement, by Andrew Wackerfuss
A close look at a Hamburg paramilitary group teaches Victoria Harris something new about Nazism

A close look at a Hamburg paramilitary group teaches Victoria Harris something new about Nazism

Conference paper challenges argument that gender-balanced committees boost female candidates

The divine is absent in a study focused on our drive to build a better world, finds Keith Tester

Linnie Blake extols a study on films using the technology to tell their stories

A biography of the late Chinese leader details his long, complex career yet the statesman defies easy labels, says Kerry Brown

Bankers swap cufflinks for cassocks in an era of reinvention not defined by pay, finds Leslie Gofton

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Postgraduate loans are around the corner; will they drive fees up?

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Two universities’ no-holds-barred recruitment battle was unedifying; more dispiriting is to see that China’s best and brightest prefer to study abroad, says Hong Bing

BIS confirms it is looking at how to cut costs, after news emerges of ‘quick and dirty’ McKinsey review

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

UK’s quality body rejects funding council proposals to scrap institutional reviews