From Where I Sit - Silence on Europe is deafening
Few stories have so dominated the news in recent years as Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We have been faced with a torrent of bad news and warnings ranging from worries about contagion within the...
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Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes
Virginia Trimble considers supermassive creative destruction at the Universe’s galactic centres
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Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture
Do we really need a book like this? Isn’t it perfectly obvious that animals suffer, and that their suffering matters? Well, hardly. In fact, it may instead seem obvious that most animals - insects,...
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The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace
In July 1928, Beatrice Pace was acquitted of the charge of murdering her husband, Harry. The trial of the working-class woman had attracted considerable press coverage, making her a “celebrity”....
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I Did It To Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone
Joanna Lewis on how cultures and circumstances skew our passions more than we may realise
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Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Welfare States and Immigrant Rights offers an original analysis of the impact of welfare states on immigrants’ social rights, economic situations and levels of inclusion. In what is the first...
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The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork
Ben Kafka is wised up to any jokey allusions one might play upon his name: he is a witty, very well-read and genial master not only of the Marx and Freud he takes as prime movers of his little jeu d’...
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Odds and quads
Credit: Penn MuseumThis male skull within a "craniostat" forms part of the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, now held by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology....
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Appointments
University of SheffieldSarah WigglesworthAn award-winning architect and professor of architecture at the University of Sheffield, Sarah Wigglesworth has become the first woman to be appointed a Royal...
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Scientific method acting, when all the lab's a stage
Oxford scholar offers full-length analysis of staged ‘two-culture’ entanglement. Matthew Reisz writes
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The price of quality and innovation is failure
David Matthews reports from the World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha and hears Tony Blair’s former adviser argue for university ‘turnover’
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22 November 2012
Don’t let the scholars grind you down - Karel Reisz’s son reflects on academic interpretations of his director father’s work
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Cyberspaces free from the constraints of theocracy
Event hears how online learning offers ‘alternative public realm’ for Iranians. Matthew Reisz reports
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The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives
Erika Cudworth considers the ethical dilemmas posed by the decline and death of a beloved ‘pet’
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Lawrence of Arabia
The 50th anniversary re-release of Lawrence of Arabia allows us to reassess cinema’s sensual relationship with the desert, Davina Quinlivan writes