Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen
June Purvis on an absorbing study of social change
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Look sharp, the ground is shifting
In a revolutionary era the sector must abandon its traditional reticence to explore a taboo research subject: itself
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Still personal, still political
Miriam David’s reflections on her career as a scholar and feminist inspired her to interview a range of female academics about their paths to the getting of wisdom - and the pivotal role feminism has...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Bleakonomics by Rob Larson
Stewart Lansley on a sobering tale of plutonomy and the ‘failed science’ of economics
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Willy Maley reviews an acclaimed Kenyan writer’s memoirs
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Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town by Lucy Riall
Richard Bosworth on the Risorgimento’s local legacy
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Imagining the University by Ronald Barnett
Simon Blackburn on higher education via a postmodern lens
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Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe by Katy Price
Vike Martina Plock on literary echoes of relativity’s shockwaves
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Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life by André Dombrowski
Alex Danchev finds new Modernist shades in this portrait of painter
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Campus round-up
Hot stuffResearchers have been awarded £765,000 for a three-year study into the physical processes behind the super-hot ionised plasma that appears on the Sun. The Science and Technology Facilities...
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In the spirit: there's more to research than money
EU should place spiritual values above potential profit in funding considerations, Chris Parr hears
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Odds & quads
Source: Society of Authors © Estate of Virginia WoolfThis is one of eight engagement diaries, recently purchased at Sotheby’s by the University of Sussex, in which Virginia Woolf recorded social...
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It ain't me, although the protagonist is a creative writing lecturer like me
Nicholas Royle’s latest book is framed by his experience as an academic, he tells Matthew Reisz
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News in brief
United StatesTaster course credit incentivesSeveral public universities in the US are to offer a free introductory online course to anyone in the world in the hope that those who pass will go on to...