Humanities

The new principal of St Andrews has made history. Olga Wojtas meets a terrorism expert from Harvard

A UK institute of advanced studies would enrich interdisciplinarity and raise the profile of key scholarly work, writes Kevin Sharpe

Robert Gillett on Erika and Klaus Mann's bittersweet relationships with family and country

Philip Smallwood on a polemicist's progress

Psychoanalysis may have little place in university psychology departments, but it is flourishing within the arts and humanities. Matthew Reisz reports on the debates - and divisions - between academics and clinicians

Intelligence is a predictor of religious scepticism, a professor has argued. Rebecca Attwood reports

Academics say they and students will suffer under move at Leeds Met, writes Melanie Newman

Academics who are sole entrants in their category admit to feeling the pressure. Zoe Corbyn reports

Athenian art lauding men's sexual relations with beardless youth still unsettles, says Simon Goldhill

Alex Danchev finds law and war are indivisible

Scholars must challenge the copyright laws, which allow estates to stifle efforts to generate new ideas about an author's works, argues Alistair McCleery

Alex Danchev is entranced by the lyricism and virtuosity of jazz master Charles Lloyd

Disseminating research via the web is appealing, but it lacks journals' peer-review quality filter, says Philip Altbach

Benjamin Ziemann on Nazi lust for Lebensraum

The RCA's departing chief tells Rebecca Attwood he's proud to have pushed creative arts to centre stage

With the REF research assessment has come of age but much still needs to be done, says David Eastwood

But Hefce refuses to define extra data that will be used to judge research quality. Zoe Corbyn reports

Study tallies 'hidden subsidy' of global scholarly communications system. Zoe Corbyn reports

A good primer on US law fails to look beyond the parochial in this global age, says Terence Kealey

John Lippitt on a Lacanian analysis of comedy that trips up on a few Real and Symbolic banana skins

A juicy account of England's links with Holland is missing a few segments, Anthony Milton discovers