Anti-Nietzsche
Malcolm Bull's latest work is not a book about Nietzsche but one with Nietzsche; if it had had a subtitle, "Nietzschean Variations" might have been a good choice. For this is exactly what the book...
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Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
To most people outside Germany, that country's long-lasting division after 1945 has been seen as a series of dramatic crises, essentially concerned with the divided and encircled city of Berlin....
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Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
Japanese notions of mental health differ from ours but everyone suffers in recession, finds David Healy
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British Comics: A Cultural History
Most of us with fond memories of what we read as children or young adolescents will feel some trepidation as the comic becomes the object of academic study, and be aghast at the prospect of Korky the...
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Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World
Philippe van Parijs' book treats a subject that is largely neglected in the English-speaking world. Native speakers of English tend to accept the phenomenon of English as a global lingua franca (ELF...
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Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
In turning away as cattle are killed for our tables, we condemn animals to suffer, says Temple Grandin
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Farewell, obscure objects of desire
Open access may sound death knell for costly, little-read monographs. Matthew Reisz reports
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I'm here all week, ba-dum-tish! (Is this thing still on?)
Scholars should go easy on the jokes as a bad crack can cause all sorts of problems. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
Degree appealStill doctor no as court backs OIAA medical student who twice failed his final-year examinations has lost a legal battle over the decision not to award him a degree. Amandip Sandhar, a...
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Burns notice on for-profit plans
NUS president tells Jack Grove that taxpayers will baulk at paying shareholders for ill-judged reforms
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Film deems v-cs' attitude to reforms unhealthy
Acquiescence to Browne policies contrasted with NHS leaders' solidarity. John Gill writes
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All creatures great and small need scientists as well as practising vets
Too many veterinary graduates forgo research to pursue a career in the clinic, finds Matthew Reisz
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Has Knight arrived in time to rescue ߣߣÊÓƵ's academy?
Simon Baker on the hoped-for impact of reforms spurred by an official review of student visa policies
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Grant winners
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL• Award winners: Daniel Kroening, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Sonia Waharte• Institutions: Universities of Oxford and Bedfordshire• Value: £650,000New...
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Statutes, no limitations
Ryszard Piotrowicz argues that international law must once again become a core component of UK legal curricula