Opportunity to rejuvenate
European universities should look to the US for a route back to excellence, argues Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño
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Unregulated KIS data overload will baffle, not enlighten, students
Richard Partington fears that the way in which comparative data are presented may deter disadvantaged prospective undergraduates
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There's still 98% to go
Occupy has won more minds than hearts among the public, and that includes scholars and students, says Sunil Manghani
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Willetts meets with private equity firms
David Willetts has met with four more private equity firms as the government considers opening higher education institutions to "private investment".
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
A grand strategist of the Cold War era had moments of burnished majesty, learns Alex Danchev
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The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains
The three elements of a polar atlas are fascinating but don't quite make a whole, says Robert Mayhew
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Writing Romanticism: Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807
While thanking earlier scholars of Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth in the preface to her new book, Jacqueline Labbe remarks that "in researching it I have learned vaster amounts than have made...
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Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages
Let's start with the title. It's a shocker. Not only does it suggest, misleadingly, a humorous tome on medieval saints and their appendages, but its register seems quite inappropriate to what is in...
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The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
Graham Farmelo applauds an ambitious scientific work, but warns that it's not for the fainthearted
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The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy
Many people would agree that a society in which a chief executive officer earns not five or 10 but 100 times as much as the average full-time worker is not a fair society. A series of recent studies...
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Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression
When the anthology Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s was published in 2006, one contribution struck a discordant note. While the other essays typically...
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Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay and the Vichy Dilemma
The actions of a Jewish gay icon in wartime France were iffy, not treacherous, argues Matthew Feldman
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How We See the Sky: A Naked-eye Tour of Day & Night
In a book that considers the appearance of the heavens from the point of view of naked-eye observations on the Earth's surface, Thomas Hockey writes about the practical astronomy that anyone can do...
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The Bible Now
A commonplace distinction in biblical studies is that between "what it meant" and "what it means". The authors of The Bible Now, who are experts on the Old Testament (or, for Jews, the Hebrew Bible...
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Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories
Still looking for Christmas gifts? You might be inspired by a book on Renaissance accessories. Matthew Reisz writes