Books

A. W. Purdue on the leader who saw the nuclear future but let it slip

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Tom Steele welcomes a painstakingly researched account of the renowned cultural critic’s legacy

Pat Thane on a book that provides important insights into the experience of female immigrants

Are we losing sight of the purpose of reading? Rachel Bowlby isn’t sure she needs instruction

Gary Day enjoys the facts but would have appreciated some more analysis in a comprehensive review of all aspects of television

Christina Hellmich applauds the clear analysis that reveals a complex array of internal divisions, power struggles and conflicting ideological trends in the Brotherhood

Focusing on top scholars’ practices gives an incomplete picture, says Huw Morris

Angelia R. Wilson on welfare, women and unresolved political tension

Clare Brant on the truly dedicated followers of 18th-century fashion

Donna Drucker on the relationship between intelligence and sex

Sophie Fuggle on the constantly changing debate between high and low culture

Barbara Graziosi evaluates a crash course in classical myth

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Robin Feuer Miller on an analysis of writers’ perceptions of death

Marianne Elliott on the bloody foundation of a modern state

Robert Eaglestone lauds what will become a standard work in literary criticism

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Small towns were often accommodating to those without a straight sensibility, finds Sally R. Munt

Arne Hintz welcomes a timely contribution to the post-Leveson debate

Jon Turney is dispirited by the rhetoric of collapse in a sober analysis of two global crises

Hayley Jayne Bradley on how she has been depicted over the centuries

Mark Berry on what lies behind the modern reverence for Mozart’s music

Ivor Gaber on how broadcasters report stories in which the status quo is under threat

Maureen McNeil praises a short overview of the challenges of recent body politics

Roza Tsagarousianou on an attempt to make sense of how the country has been subjected to international scrutiny

Tony Mann examines the argument that miscalculations can lead to triumphs

Martin Cohen on logic and its place at philosophy’s core

Medical advances have coincided with a decline in healthcare for all, finds Dita Wickins-Drazilova

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Cheryl Buckley considers our changing relationships with clothes and fashion as we grow older

Jill Stephenson praises a study of terror from the skies

Victoria Bateman counts the costs when there’s not enough to go around

Margaret Weitekamp on a woman who helped get the US space programme off the ground

Alison Stokes enjoys a tour of the physical and metaphorical lands of fire and brimstone

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A startling exercise in revisionism leads A. W. Purdue to ponder which nation was responsible for launching the great conflict

Rachel L. Einwohner on those who stood against the Holocaust

Vicky Conway on the corrosive effect of unchecked power

Religious belief is alive and well on campus, observes Gerald Pillay

Andy Miah on the pros and cons of humanity 2.0

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The academy is turning a blind eye to plagiarism, an anonymous professor warns

David Gewanter on the Modernist urge to edit

Christianity undermined Roman sexuality by giving it a spiritual dimension, finds Candida Moss

Daria Kuss is impressed with a series of interviews that shed light on the medicalisation of gaming problems

June Purvis is intrigued by an account of those who swam against the tide in an age of conformity and religious piety

Tara Brabazon on building difference online

Stina Lyon on the personal and emotional costs of a global marketplace where everything’s for sale

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Korea was divided by a struggle for legitimacy that resonates still, writes Marilyn Young

Lucy Wooding reviews an analysis of the culture of early modern England

Lee Maril is riveted by a first-time academic author’s encounters with the men and women who patrol the Arizona-Mexico border

Ilaria Favretto on how the ‘years of lead’ were brought to a close

Jane Thomas takes the Wessex trail

Michael King is unconvinced by the case for postmodern justice

Hugh Adlington gains a greater appreciation of one of England’s greatest devotional poets

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Mary Bryden on a deliciously rich interrogation of the French novelist’s oeuvre

Erik-Jan Bos finds that the mystery surrounding a famous painting opens a new window on the French philosopher’s world and life