On Rereading
Valerie Sanders delights in an off-duty academic's return to the inspirational literature of her youth
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Chanel: An Intimate Life
Anne Hogan on an insightful study of the famous couturiere's complex character and singular journey
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A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa
A monarchy and ruling elite live in conspicuous excess while the majority get poorer. Financial scams, identity theft and unscrupulous moneylenders are rife. A sense of unfairness and desperation has...
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American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
Upon entering the Oriental Institute, nestled in the neo-Gothic University of Chicago campus, you pass under a sculpture of "East teaching the West". This concept of the Near East and the Nile Valley...
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Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks
To create illusions, Fibonacci and algorithms are as important as sleight of hand, discovers C.J. Howls
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Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
Gayle Rubin is an American feminist anthropologist whose seminal essays The Traffic in Women (1975) and Thinking Sex (1984) changed the way we think about sex and gender. This book brings together a...
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The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Representations of Reality in History and Fiction
For a genre that until very recently was seen as marginal at best, and hopelessly dull at worst, the historical novel has been very well served of late by in-depth scholarly analyses. Books by...
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Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization
Simon Goldhill warms to the charms of a wacky history tour, despite its simplified viewpoint
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The Case of the Poisonous Socks: Tales from Chemistry
As I conduct my laboratory experiments every day, pushing the boundaries of science ever forwards, I must confess I don't give much thought to the scientific history that came before "my time"....
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Heinrich Himmler
Under the command of Heinrich Himmler, the SS adopted the policy of selecting only those men who were considered fine specimens of Nordic manhood. Strict obedience to this rule would have made its...
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Diary
BBC Radio 4Sex and the Single GirlFirst published in 1962, the book Sex and the Single Girl sold 2 million copies in the first three weeks and soon landed author Helen Gurley Brown the role of editor...
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The Pick - Anselm Kiefer: Il Mistero delle Cattedrali
Anselm Kiefer: Il Mistero delle CattedraliWhite Cube gallery, Bermondsey, London, until 26 FebruaryAnselm Kiefer's Hortus Philosophorum seems to be a pile of uprooted mutant sunflowers. They are made...
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Artifice is the name of The X Factor game
The gigantic, apocalyptic glittering ball of The X Factor reflects back only what we give it, argues Will Brooker
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Vanity, thy name is D108
"I won't take this lying down." That was the forthright response of Dr Quintock of our Department of Media and Cultural Studies to the news that his BA D108 course has been axed by Janet Fluellen,...
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Leader: Together, they are stronger
To compete on the world stage, universities are increasingly considering mergers as a way to enhance status and expertise