In 1999, on his way to interview Melita Norwood about Russian revolutionary emigres, David Burke was astonished to see on the front page of The Times a photograph of his 87-year-old interviewee with...
Who is Zygmunt Bauman? The greatest sociologist writing in English today ..." announces an early chapter in this book. Well, if he isn't, who is? Mark Davis, in his plain, open-minded and admirable...
Gerard Carruthers relishes a magisterial portrait of Scotland's iconic literary figure
Bodies by Susie Orbach, visiting professor, London School of Economics.Profile, £10.99, ISBN 9781846680199"Orbach unpacks Freudian ideas such as hysterical symptoms and explains the role of genetics...
Jeremy Keenan takes issue with a book that is 'the epitome of all that anthropology should not be'
Samuel Johnson: The Struggle is Jeffrey Meyers' 21st biography, with most of the preceding 20 dealing with modern figures such as Ernest Hemingway or D.H. Lawrence. Here, he takes his first steps...
The title might suggest another run through the crises and treaties between the wars as the cast changes from the plenipotentiaries at Versailles in their top hats to the great dictators and the man...
Mona Siddiqui on wives, husbands and their places in the multiple layers of Muslim jurisprudence
Focusing on the 16th-century French court, Margaret McGowan's rigorously researched, beautifully illustrated text argues persuasively for the centrality of dance within Renaissance culture.Dance...
Historians over the past few decades, both in the Middle East and outside it, have mined rich seams of archival sources and oral narratives to construct a resonant and productive body of scholarship...
To lose our negative evolutionary baggage we have to go back to our roots, discovers Alan Bilsborough
In my final year as an undergraduate, I remember discussing with a friend my plan to pursue PhD research in the sociology of metal music. With a contemptuous look on his face, he said "you shouldn't...
This outstanding, thoroughly researched and vividly written book focuses on the last two centuries of Western involvement in the Middle East. The topic is not new, and the market for books on the...
? = review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Art and Design at Brighton 1859-2009: From Arts and Manufactures to the Creative and Cultural IndustriesEdited by Philippa Lyon, research fellow in the Centre...
Every new year brings reports on the state of the humanities in higher education, so brace yourself anew. On 7 January, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released its "Humanities Indicators"....