The week in books
How Fiction Works by James Wood, professor of the practice of literary criticism, Harvard University. Cape, £12.99, ISBN 9780224079839"Wood's roots are deep in English religious non-conformity. He...
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A patently provocative tale
Howard Davies on a saucily titled attack on state funding for research and intellectual property rights
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Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame
How to deal with shame? I was a little homosexual "queer boy" in the 1950s and 1960s, and started my coming-out journey in 1966 - to family, friends, colleagues, students and ultimately in the...
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The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter
Cyril Connolly said that you read journalism once and literature twice. The one is of the moment, the other for all time. But try telling that to Richard Keeble and Sharon Wheeler, editors of The...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Holborn
1. The Future of Management by Gary Hamel and Bill Breen. Harvard Business School Press, £15.99. ISBN 97814221025032. All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy by Constantinos C...
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The pleasure of being virtuous
Simon Blackburn lauds a lucid and humane directive of making ethical choices
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The End of Work: Theological Critiques of Capitalism
This is a book about the theology of work, though in fact it is as much about philosophers and their views of labour, capitalism and the economy of the modern world. Its strength lies in its...
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The Wooster Group Work Book
Wooster Group director Elizabeth LeCompte describes how the framing device applied to Chekhov's Three Sisters in Brace Up! and Fish Story drew on a documentary about an itinerant troupe of...
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Less heat, more light, please
Tackling climate change is about a lot more than understanding the science, insists Mike Hulme.
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Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
One of the strangest products of American philanthropy in recent years is Seattle's The Experience Music Project. This kind-of-a-museum, housed in one of Frank Gehry's less acclaimed buildings and...
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Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form
Helen Vendler's latest book is an exhaustive reading of Yeats's poetry in its engagement with poetic forms. In just under 400 pages, she looks at the way he uses a variety of forms, from trimeter to...
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Published this week
ANTHROPOLOGYPostcolonial DisordersEdited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, professor of social medicine, Harvard University; Sandra Teresa Hyde, associate professor in the departments of anthropology and...
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Correction
A missing comma in a quotation in our profile of Sir Gordon Duff ("Flu fighter", 7 February) may have given the incorrect impression that Sir Gordon had said that the famous Spanish Flu pandemic was...
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Keeping personal data safe
By Diane Gilhooley
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University of Hull - Logistics Institute opens
A £23 million Logistics Institute to study the movement of goods is due to open at the University of Hull on 5 March. The university hopes the institute will have a "significant impact" on the region...