Books

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

The death of the poet self-foretold: David Gewanter on an esteemed critic's graveside meditation

Simon Blackburn wonders why some moral questions are so tantalisingly difficult to answer

Seismologist Ian Main on why more lives are saved by preparation than prognostication

Hilary Rose hails powerfully unflinching reflections on the researcher's obligations to her subjects

Roy Coleman on the politics of fear and finance driving the police crackdowns on 'undesirables'

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Lou Marinoff on a scholarly volunteer's heroic and humorous battle to turn back the moronic tide

John Grodzinski considers a rare British look at an epic clash between the US and a nascent Canada

Charles Townshend finds a striking critique of counterterrorism sometimes goes too far

Robert Kulpa re-evaluates an interdisciplinary thinker who probes the limits of anthropocentrism

Joseph Dauben is impressed with the scholarship in a study of 'shape-shifting' missionaries

Sir Howard Newby appreciates a wake-up call for the US academy that will ring alarm bells here, too

Why are most people 'everyday denialists'? Steven Yearley gets a sobering lesson

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Germany's loss was England's gain, says James Stevens Curl of the start of an acclaimed career

Is the pristine wilderness extinct - or was it only ever a myth? Jules Pretty on the dichotomies of humans and our habitat

This analysis of elitism is not new, says Fiona Taylor, but neither are the claims made in elitism's favour

Matthew Reisz talks to Stanley Wells, doyen of Shakespearean editorial scholarship, about his lifetime commitment to the playwright and his new book on romance and the 'beast with two backs'