Behind the Scenes at Boston Ballet Text and images capture a company facing a hostile environment, writes Anne Hogan 15 October
The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends Michelle Harvey gets to the bottom of some of the most popular tales of horror surrounding insects 15 October
Teaching for Understanding at University: Deep Approaches and Distinctive Ways of Thinking 15 October
Crime and Muslim Britain: Culture and the Politics of Criminology among British Pakistanis A fresh approach to a 'taboo' subject raises more questions than answers, says David Gadd 15 October
Book of the week: Nature's Ghosts Jules Pretty discusses humanity's tardy conservation efforts 15 October
Organising Poetry Christoph Bode admires the scholarship but finds no space for novelty in this Romantic study 15 October
Book of the week: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age Will the web's total recall threaten our identities? wonders Henry Farrell 8 October
Muriel Spark: The Biography Martin McQuillan finds flashes of biographical gold revealed despite a life self-mythologising 8 October
Security and Environmental Change We should heed this warning against militarising environmental hazards, writes Tim Dunne 8 October
The Playful Brain: Venturing to the Limits of Neuroscience When it comes to mammalian development, play's the thing, as Sue McHale discovers 8 October
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism Simon Blackburn relishes a scholarly dinner date, with anthropophagy as the main course 8 October
Book of the week: The Idea of Justice Alex Danchev is bowled over by an impassioned discussion of reason and humanity 1 October
Saving Kyoto - An Insider's Guide to the Kyoto Protocol Anthony Giddens feels the authors have looked at carbon trading through rose-tinted glasses 1 October
The Communal Gadfly - Jews, British Jews and the Jewish State: Asking the Subversive Questions 1 October
'History goes on; human beings don't change very much' John Gray says he is no despairing grump, just trying to help us by injecting realism into political thinking. To that end, he tells Matthew Reisz, his essays do not skirt the nasty, shabby sides of life By Matthew Reisz 1 October
Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age 24 September
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 24 September
Lived in London: Blue Plaques and the Stories Behind Them The quirky tales behind London's commemorative icons revive Duncan Wu's enthusiasm for the city 24 September
The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War Peter Hart is unconvinced by the assertion that the secret to a soldier's survival was his family 24 September
Book of the week: Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe Simon Mitton on a tour de force that joins the human and the cosmic 24 September
Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History Jane Humphries admires the detective work that is rekindling respect for the match girls' strike of 1888 24 September
The Canon. Utopian Thought in the Western World. By Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel 24 September
The Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity A 19th-century obsession with the macabre was the medieval church's saviour, says James Stevens Curl 24 September
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? A theory that dispels the idea of Earth's systems being self-regulating does not convince Jon Turney 24 September
Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England 24 September
Branded Entertainment: Product Placement and Brand Strategy in the Entertainment Business 17 September
