A Treatise on Modern Architecture in Five Books, by George Saumarez Smith
James Stevens Curl on the importance of hand-drawing skills and appropriate use of classical language in designing modern buildings
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Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media, by Suzanne Franks
Sally Feldman on an alternative interpretation of the media reporting and government responses to the Ethiopian famine in 1984
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Floating City: Hustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York, by Sudhir Venkatesh
Dick Hobbs finds low-life tales of illegal entrepreneurs in abundance, but not so scholarly rigour
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Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History, by Catherine Merridale
Lara Cook on how different leaders have made and remade the Kremlin
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Richard Wagner: A Life in Music, by Martin Geck
Barbara Eichner on a different kind of biography
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Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, by Christina B. Hanhardt
Marian Duggan takes a tour of the US LGBT liberation movement
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Paul Benneworth, Laurence Coupe, Sara Read, R. C. Richardson and Dek Woolfson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Kant buy me love
One of our leading under-threat-of-redundancy philosophers, Dr D. W. Dingbat, has responded forcefully to the contention – first promoted by Norman Swartz, professor emeritus at Simon Fraser...
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LSE urged to act over Peking critic’s expulsion
UCU protests over sacking of free speech champion
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Universities urged to spread word about staff and student threats
Victim of harassment calls for changes in light of jail term for Queen’s academic
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Sketchy information: illustration as a tool of understanding
Symposium considers drawing’s role in refining and communicating knowledge, from geology to surgery to unicorns
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Indonesia struggles to bridge its skills gap
Vocational courses are the latest focus of government investment
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Terminal rhetoric
“Universities, at the end of the day, are businesses.” (“Cap won’t fit for long: v-c predicts £20,000 UK fees”, News, 7 November.) How glibly that phrase issues from the lips of Nick Petford, vice-...
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There’s no distance left to run
The 1994 Group’s break-up reflects fragmentation in the sector and leaves the ‘elite’ tag to the Russell Group alone
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Research needs more poetry, not more cash
‘Big money’ grants foster ‘bookkeeping’ work at the expense of small-scale but potentially groundbreaking efforts, says Gary Thomas