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As a full-time academic who is a wheelchair user living with multiple sclerosis, discrimination is a fact of life. Unlike my colleagues I do not have a choice over how I get to work: public transport...
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Peacetime propaganda
On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme recently, Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker claimed that the world is retreating from violence and cruelty. According to the good professor, it seems we...
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Free and easy to find
I can confirm for Richard Hoyle that the journal Theatre Notebook is run on such “old-fashioned lines that the editors give their time for nothing”, or at least nothing pecuniary (“Pipe-dream...
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Bear baiting
I was surprised to see the eponymous character from Seth MacFarlane’s Ted appear in the illustration for John Kaag’s “Teething troubles” (Opinion, 13 June). I’m not sure that the drug-smoking, hard-...
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Anna Notaro, Sara Read, Claire Warden, Sharon Wheeler and Susan Wilson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf
A better gender balance in government benefits all, Sylvia Walby observes
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Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America by Terry Eagleton
Marxist intellectual is no Bill Bryson, Peter J. Smith discovers
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Cruel Modernity by Jean Franco
Joanna Bourke on a harrowing look at the darkness in human hearts
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Time Reborn: From the Crisis of Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin
Michael Berry is unpersuaded by a radical theory that tries to reinstate the concept of absolute time
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Women and the Bible in Early Modern England by Femke Molekamp
Lucy Wooding on how women’s reading of the Bible was central to their lives and inspired a wealth of literature
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Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art by Peter Osborne
K. E. Gover finds an explanation of modern art fails to enlighten
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The Lius of Shanghai by Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh
Jennifer Altehenger on a family who lived through interesting times
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Permanent Present Tense: The Man with No Memory and What He Taught the World by Suzanne Corkin
Patient H. M.’s personal tragedy was humanity’s gain, says Morgan Barense
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Top pig man gets impact job
Source: AlamyPig Twizzlers make a heavy impactOur Head of Research Impact, Gerald Thudd, has welcomed the news that Sir Hartley Grossman, the M. D. of Poppleton Pork Products, will be a specialist...