The week in books
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock, honorary visiting fellow, Green College, Oxford. Allen Lane, £20.00. ISBN 9781846141850"James Lovelock is the closest thing we have to...
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Slow-Tech: Manifesto for an Over-wound World
We need an alternative to our frenetic society but, writes John Whitelegg, this book does not provide it
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Coda
Let sleeping tumours lie." If only one could. Simon Gray's previous memoir, The Last Cigarette, ended with the grim news that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. The posthumously published Coda...
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Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music
Music and the moving image were inseparable long before the arrival of the talkies. From the live accompaniment of yesteryear's picture-house organs to today's finitely constructed electro-acoustic...
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Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
John Gilbey praises an invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares
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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process
On the first page of this intensely readable gem of a little book, Robert D. Richardson observes most surprisingly, and bluntly: "Writing was the central passion of Emerson's life ... But he never...
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Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy
Olivia Holmes' study is an investigation into a fundamental topic for scholars and readers of Dante and medieval literature in general: the complex and fascinating relationship that ties together...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- The Idol in the Age of Art: Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern WorldEdited by Michael W. Cole, associate professor of history of art, University of...
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Hefce must keep closer eye on widening access, say MPs
Specific improvement plans needed for badly performing universities as working-class participation rises just two percentage points in four years. Melanie Newman reports
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Vice-chancellor leaves University of East London
Martin Everett, the vice-chancellor of the University of East London, has left the university. He resigned on 24 February after more than seven months on suspension.Professor Everett was suspended...
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No going back - V-C speaks
Our Vice-Chancellor has reacted angrily to the revelation in The Sunday Times that John Denham, the Universities Secretary, is about to ask former polytechnics to revert to their previous role rather...
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History, tragedy, farce
Felipe Fernández-Armesto finds his beloved Oxford changed, changed utterly
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Off Piste: Poets lorryate
What mad pursuit? Duncan Wu on a night of sublimity and terror among the roaring, soaring, brutally lyrical Monster Trucks
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Leader: A peerless and humble champion
Ron Dearing left school at 16, but his unstinting devotion to higher education's highest aims have left the UK sector a better place
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From where I sit - Write better to arrest book decline
The US has elected a President who glides effortlessly from reading books to surfing the internet, yet it remains no easier to imagine a sequel to "Books That Changed Our Minds", a 1939 symposium in...