Sighs of the times
As the author of two books forthcoming in the Warwick Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities series, I can confirm – as stated in the article “Writers’ block: description of an academic struggle...
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Disobedient Objects at the V&A: knit your own revolution
Shahidha Bari on a thoughtfully assembled tour of dissent in all its handcrafted, inflatable, gorilla-masked, badge-bedecked glory
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World in brief - 31 July 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesMore join Israel boycott movementThe African Literature Association has become the latest US-based scholarly organisation to back an academic boycott of Israel. A resolution...
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Spain scraps university entrance exam for foreign students
Selectividad test removed in effort to drive up traditionally low number of entrants from abroad
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Campus close-up: Bath Spa University
West Country campus focuses on student exchange schemes and boosting overseas intake
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The Novel: A Biography, by Michael Schmidt
Robert Eaglestone applauds a lively exploration of intertextuality in a work fit for a post-Wikipedia age
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Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England, by Piers J. Hale
Simon Underdown on a meticulously researched analysis of two camps’ opposing arguments over Darwin’s work
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Belief without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious, by Linda A. Mercadante
Kristin Aune discovers the wide-ranging views and behaviour of ‘nones’ - the religiously unaffiliated
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Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes our Loves and Fears, by Gordon H. Orians
Tiffany Taylor on the emotional and aesthetic responses we share with our hominid ancestors
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Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed – and What it Means for our Future, by Dale Jamieson
Steven Yearley on the economic and ethical reasons for why attempts to prevent climate change have failed
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Andrew King, R. C. Richardson, Peter J. Smith, Amanda Taylor and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Appointments - 31 July 2014
The latest higher education appointments
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Dominic Cummings invites specific criticism: what does he get?
The former adviser to education secretary Michael Gove trawls for constructive criticism on policy, but will not stand for general whining
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Q&A with Carolyn Roberts
We speak to the Frank Jackson Foundation professor of the environment, Gresham College
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Rod Franks, 1956-2014
An acclaimed trumpeter who also served as a professor at several of England’s leading colleges of music has died