Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, by Richard Sakwa
John Barber on a powerful critique of Western policy

John Barber on a powerful critique of Western policy

Sharon Wheeler relishes the detailed research in this true crime tale

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

An engaging account of an unruly city, but why so little on Empire, wonders Danny Dorling

Charalambos Kyriacou lauds this account of the life of a humble Nobelist

Catarina Dutilh Novaes on an investigation of the merits and limits of rational debate

Julianne Moore gives a complex, nuanced portrait of a professor confounded and isolated by Alzheimer’s, writes Lucy Bolton

Removal of academic board member from body supporting study of Canada in the UK spurs resignations

A physicist on the ‘shameless exploitation’ of low-pay sessional lecturing that leaves his family officially classed as ‘poor’

Labour’s proposal to cut tuition fees will be funded by removing a perk from the UK’s super-rich, writes the professor of geography

One of the foremost academic librarians of his generation has died

Are the best assessors your colleagues, or external observers?

Yong Zhao believes China doesn’t foster the free thinkers it needs. What is the state of the country’s higher education system?

Creative writing, often seen as a heretical branch of English studies, is split into sects. But such schisms are no sin, says Jonathan Taylor

Labour has given birth to its £6K tuition fees baby but doubts still remain about the costs and benefits of the policy