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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Rapid advances in information technology have pressing implications for us all, finds John Gilbey

Yesterday's linguistic avant-garde can become today's authoritarians, Jeremy MacClancy discovers

A powerful history of 'Catharism' attests to the politicisation of heresy, argues Helen Castor

This examination of past and future thought leaves Shahidha Bari captivated, and occasionally baffled

Joanna Bourke reflects on the role of women in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by the US military

Not a conventional history of film and no obvious theme - it's a bit of a mixed bag, says Philip Kemp

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Tristan Bekinschtein takes a trip with the Che Guevara of cognitive neuroscience

Jesper Vaczy Kragh discusses the ecstasy and the agony of humanity's ancient companion

Gender is a battlefield, but the casualties aren't always who you'd expect, Simon Blackburn says

The abyss beckons if the West doesn't close the yawning income gap, says Stewart Lansley

This survey is as big as the country it covers, but it pulls its punches, David Bachman finds

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Plugging the income gap could prevent another economic landslide, discovers Stewart Lansley

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Willy Maley hails a monumental biography that sets new standards in Renaissance criticism

Isabelle Szmigin examines how billboards and commercials lure us into buying certain products

Chris Jones is discomfited by the extraordinary fruits of a troubled and troubling literature

Electronic pioneer's cyber literacy guide is lost in translation, argues Harold Thimbleby

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Urban centres across the world were built with racial separation in mind, Wendy Pullan discovers

Polly Jones is fascinated by a remarkable romance that endured a brutal, brutalising confinement

Too many mental-health professionals are blind to context, believes Steven Schwartz

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Graham Farmelo is pleased to see the spotlight turn to the ‘supreme problem-solver of the 20th century’

No we can't? Four decades of US dominance in the Gulf may be drawing to a close, says Philip Robins

Scott Sandage meets the political offspring who make a mark for all the wrong reasons

Increasing globalisation may not bring peace, but Howard Davies glimpses a digital way ahead