Book of the week: History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood
Philip Smallwood says this great philosopher's story is long overdue
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Reporting the World
The reporter Keith Kyle knew how to shape a good story, especially his own, says Alex Danchev
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The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
The American creative writing programme. Hardly are those words out when a vast image troubles our sight. Gone is the Shelley Circle and the Bloomsbury Group; gone the Jamesian high tea and Hemingway...
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The Canon. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life. Theodor Adorno
What might Theodor Adorno have said about Michael Jackson? Frank Zappa claimed that rock music writing was produced by people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, to provide articles...
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Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television
Sci-fi's visions of what is to come tell us much about present preoccupations, writes John Gilbey
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Fresh: A Perishable History
Food has always been a (in some ways the) central concern of mankind, but of late it has received unprecedented press: from a spate of books on "proper eating" to celebrity chefs moving beyond...
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Frankenstein: Icon of Modern Culture
It may be impossible today to envisage Victor Frankenstein's Monster without invoking the grotesque that Boris Karloff created in the corny but influential 1931 cinema adaptation, one of the first of...
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Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education
Roger Brown enjoys a timely text that shows we cannot afford to starve the academy of funds
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Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
America's suburbs grew dramatically in the years after the Second World War, and the developer William Levitt was a key figure in the expansion. In Levittown, David Kushner paints a compelling...
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Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror
As fans of the hit television series 24 will know, Jack Bauer is the gutsy hero who races against the clock to save America from terror attacks. For some, including Michael Chertoff, the former US...
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The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa
David H. Price asks if the Bush Administration engineered or simply exploited a hostage situation
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The New Plagues: Pandemics and Poverty in a Globalized World
Stefan Kaufmann is both lucky and unlucky. His luck is to be a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, situated close to the Luisenstrasse, where in 1880 Robert...
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Sound Commitments: Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties
That music can be a countercultural and subversive force is clear and well documented. Genres including folk, jazz, punk, rap and dancehall have all been subject to regulation and state attention,...
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The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture
The story of medieval Spain cannot be neatly delineated along religious lines, says Jill Ross
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African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen
The title of Lindiwe Dovey's first monograph promises more than it can possibly deliver. This is not a synoptic study of African film or African literature, but a series of cogently focused case...