1. The No Nonsense Guide to Democracy by Richard Swift Verso, £7.00 ISBN 97818598447002. The Entertainer by John Osborne Faber and Faber, £8.99 ISBN 97805710636733. An Actor Prepares by Constantin...
John Lippitt on a Lacanian analysis of comedy that trips up on a few Real and Symbolic banana skins
He was an organist and a republican. He was so good-looking his fellow students at Cambridge called him "the Lady of Christ's" and he gained such expertise at Latin that Cromwell made him Secretary...
The moon in question here is not the natural celestial object that has always been a feature of the night sky since the first time anyone took the trouble to look upwards.No, the subject of Keep...
Douglas Millard on the clocks, maps, gears and valves that sparked academics' love of science
Following its devastating defeat in the Seven Years' War, France wanted to re-establish its American empire. What it needed was a new and better New France. The Duc de Choiseul settled on Kourou in...
I never thought I'd say this, but this book won me over as a fan of News of the World. By opening up six decades' worth of representations of women's cross-dressing to be found in the pages of the...
A juicy account of England's links with Holland is missing a few segments, Anthony Milton discovers
Mary Lefkowitz's History Lesson ostensibly concerns itself with academic freedom of speech, relativism and hate speech but serves as a fascinating example of the ways in which race is played out in...
I want to love this book. Really, I do. I have been pacing around my office listening to Marlene Dietrich and Amy Winehouse and wondering what to write that is generous to the project of Geek Chic,...
Chris McManus on our spitting image
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III 1949-1955 edited by Edward Mendelson, professor of English and comparative literature and Lionel Trilling professor in the humanities, Columbia...
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century...
Billion-dollar fundraiser counters the 'myth' that Britain lacks a tradition of giving. John Gill reports
UCU cautioned on debating issue by legal counsel for anti-boycott group. Melanie Newman reports