Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, by Jeremy Treglown Mercedes Camino on a cultural analysis spanning seven decades 27 February
Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf, by miriam cooke Discussion of underground and emergent queer cultures are interesting, but Caroline Osella wishes for more insight from a respected scholar 20 February
Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora Space and the Devolution of Literary Culture, by Lynne Pearce, Corinne Fowler and Robert Crawshaw Claire Chambers on how the colonial legacy is reflected in Mancunian writers’ work 6 February
Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity, by Melissa Aronczyk The ‘nation brand’ phenomenon is unsustainable, says Rula Al-Abdulrazak 23 January
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings Beset by turmoil, an inimitable critic wrote as if from the future. Joanna Hodge on a material force 23 January
Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City, by Bradley L. Garrett Tim Hall takes a ride with the urban explorers obsessed with penetrating the half-built, derelict or hidden parts of our cities 28 November
Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour, by Carol Mavor Philip Hoare floats away on a poetic enquiry into the extraordinary nature of what surrounds us 7 November
Richard Hoggart: Virtue and Reward, by Fred Inglis Tom Steele welcomes a painstakingly researched account of the renowned cultural critic’s legacy 10 October
Cultural Passions: Fans, Aesthetes and Tarot Readers, by Elizabeth Wilson Sophie Fuggle on the constantly changing debate between high and low culture 3 October
Sex and Buildings: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution, by Richard J. Williams Annmarie Adams on one man’s quest to find places where form meets libido 22 August
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, by Ruth R. Wisse A Harvard scholar on what makes Jewish wisecracks distinctly Jewish 15 August
The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, by Emma L. E. Rees Shahidha Bari welcomes a thoughtful look at ordinary anatomy and extraordinary anxiety By Shahidha Bari 15 August
London Underground: A Cultural Geography, by David Ashford A. W. Purdue on the evolution of the Tube system 8 August
Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self, by Adelheid Voskuhl Angela Vanhaelen on the fascination and fear aroused by 18th-century mechanical figures 25 July
Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity by Anahid Kassabian We can’t hear ourselves think over all this music, warns David Revill 4 July
Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America by Terry Eagleton Marxist intellectual is no Bill Bryson, Peter J. Smith discovers 27 June
On the Edge: The Contested Cultures of English Suburbia by Rupa Huq Les Gofton ventures into the shadowy suburban world of competing cultures 25 April
No Medium by Craig Dworkin David Revill on diverse art forms that focus on, literally, nothing 18 April
Orgasmology by Annamarie Jagose A study of la petite mort focuses on cultural views not sociological explorations, finds Sally R. Munt 11 April
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm Roger Morgan on a great historian’s last essays that illuminate an era of social and artistic change 11 April
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games by Jesper Juul Steve Redhead takes a byte from a fascinating but flawed analysis 4 April
Image Warfare in the War on Terror by Nathan Roger Neville Bolt on how states and militaries fail to grasp the changing role of media in our lives 28 March
Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing The Way We Fight and Think About War by Christopher Coker Steve Redhead on how the increasing sophistication of military technology affects modern warfare 7 March
Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record by Richard Osborne The medium and the music it made possible inspire a groovy kind of love in Les Gofton 21 February
Book of the week: The Age of Wonder Richard Sha explores the influence of science on Romanticism 16 October
A life played out on centre page Sean Matthews discusses Raymond Williams' reliance on his own life experiences in his work 16 October
Book of the week: Regionalism and the Reading Class Tara Brabazon acclaims a monograph of merit 11 September
Learning from the future It's time to start exchanging gifts and sharing cultures with the digital natives who are our students, says Fintan Culwin 21 August
Rear-view mirrors: reclaiming the past's foreign countries Nostalgia was once taboo in academe but a new generation is unafraid to explore longing and loss, says Alastair Bonnett 7 August
Pure gold from the mad men Isabelle Szmigin enjoys a romp through famous advertising slogans from the 1960s to the 1990s 7 August
Islam's unheard voices It is time for the West to listen and learn from Muslim moderates and radicals alike, insists Cynthia Keppley Mahmood 31 July
Of corn kernels and Columbine Keith Kahn-Harris on how hip-hop and nu-metal rage against and within US 'supercapitalism' 24 July
