When I was born on 6 October 1951, a 29-year-old British architect was working away in a flat in the Highpoint apartments in Highgate, London. He was finally seeing glimmers of the light at the end...
Elizabeth Rechniewski revels in a scholarly account of Parisians breaking the bounds of normality
Robert Wuthnow has been one of the leading and most prolific sociological commentators on American religion for the past three decades. His most recent book, true to form, is topical and grounded in...
Jonathan Fenby takes a mixed view of a new examination of the Chinese leader eclipsed by Mao
Anthropologists have studied art since the 19th century. They have learnt which approaches are worth the candle, and which aren't. Denis Dutton's book is a counterblast to this intellectual tradition...
Trevor Herbert finds resonance in an account of the influence of jazz on American books and films
Considering that William Lever was such an important late-Victorian and Edwardian public figure, he has garnered relatively little attention compared with his industrialist contemporaries such as...
As I was completing this review, I chanced upon a New York Times blog entitled "Car-Free in America", in which four prominent American scholars discussed the same topic as Kingsley Dennis and John...
The case for the study of cinema was hard fought, not least among the believers, finds Philip Kemp
In a recent edition of ߣߣÊÓƵ, James Alexander lamented the gradual demise of the electric guitar in the years that followed the 1970s. The article ran around the time of the 90th...
The citadel of psychiatry has withstood several determined assaults since at least the middle of the last century, most of them launched from within psychiatry itself. Minor skirmishing, involving a...
CHEMISTRY- Modern Molecular Photochemistry of Organic MoleculesBy Nicholas J. Turro, William P. Schweitzer professor of chemistry, Columbia University, V. Ramamurthy, Bernaud Bauss professor of...
Gavin Esler, presenter of Newsnight, and musician Dougie MacLean investigated their family histories at the University of Strathclyde's International Genealogy Festival last week. Bruce Durie,...
The potential for a devastating Pacific Ocean tsunami striking the West Coast of America may be greater than was previously thought, according to researchers. Geological evidence gathered from the...
A department of archaeology is celebrating its status as the only academic department in Britain boasting five British Academy fellows. Martin Bell, professor of environmental archaeology at the...