Novel thinking
Creative writing is as popular today as critical theory was a decade ago. Why the change, asks Penny Hancock, and how does it fit in with the study of English literature?
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All the privileged must have prizes
The banality and sense of entitlement of rich students at Harvard left John H. Summers feeling his teaching had been degraded to little more than a service to prepare clients for monied careers
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10 July 2008
Crucial link - The struggle of the middle managers bridging the gulf between academics and the administration
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‘Regret at unhappiness’ over Dalai Lama’s degree
London Met ‘has not and will not be apologising’ to Chinese community. Melanie Newman reports
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The week in books
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present by Jan de Vries, professor of history and economics, University of California, Santa Barbara Cambridge...
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Homeland insecurity
Barbed wire, dispossession and fear: Laleh Khalili on liminal lives spent in an ever-shrinking ghetto
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The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey
This book concerns the ongoing wanderings to which Odysseus/Ulysses, the hero of the Odyssey, has been subjected during the course of the nearly three millennia since the poet we know as Homer...
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In Defense of Lost Causes
In today's "postmodern" liberal ideology, it would appear that the old trajectories of both universal struggle and authoritarian hegemony now resemble what Maoists - ironically enough - would call "...
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Published this week
HISTORYLeprosy in China: A History. By Angela Ki Che Leung, research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taipei and professor of history, National Taiwan University. Columbia University Press, £29.50....
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Clinging on to their marbles
Peter Stone on a last-gasp defence of the rich Western museums hoarding the world's cultural heritage
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The 'Woman Question' and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America
Professor Plum is attempting to do in Ms Peacock in the library with a pen. Despite the successes of the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s in opening university doors to women students, 19th-...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Aberdeen
1. Clinical Skills for OSCEs by Neel L. Burton and Kuldip Birdi. Informa, £50.99. ISBN 97818418461632. Collins Concise English Dictionary. Collins, £20.00. ISBN 97800072611233. Dictionary of...
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Monstrous intelligence
Pamela Clemit on the electrifying hum of ideas that jolted Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to life
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The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival
Quite a few film directors have written novels - Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Erich von Stroheim, to name some of the most eminent - but it's rare for an established novelist to sidestep into film...
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The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary
Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the most effective communicators ever to occupy the Oval Office. A masterful performer, he could be by turns loquacious, taciturn, charming and infuriating. Herbert...