George F. Kennan: An American Life
A grand strategist of the Cold War era had moments of burnished majesty, learns Alex Danchev
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The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains
The three elements of a polar atlas are fascinating but don't quite make a whole, says Robert Mayhew
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Writing Romanticism: Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807
While thanking earlier scholars of Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth in the preface to her new book, Jacqueline Labbe remarks that "in researching it I have learned vaster amounts than have made...
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Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages
Let's start with the title. It's a shocker. Not only does it suggest, misleadingly, a humorous tome on medieval saints and their appendages, but its register seems quite inappropriate to what is in...
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The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
Graham Farmelo applauds an ambitious scientific work, but warns that it's not for the fainthearted
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The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy
Many people would agree that a society in which a chief executive officer earns not five or 10 but 100 times as much as the average full-time worker is not a fair society. A series of recent studies...
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Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression
When the anthology Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s was published in 2006, one contribution struck a discordant note. While the other essays typically...
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Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay and the Vichy Dilemma
The actions of a Jewish gay icon in wartime France were iffy, not treacherous, argues Matthew Feldman
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How We See the Sky: A Naked-eye Tour of Day & Night
In a book that considers the appearance of the heavens from the point of view of naked-eye observations on the Earth's surface, Thomas Hockey writes about the practical astronomy that anyone can do...
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The Bible Now
A commonplace distinction in biblical studies is that between "what it meant" and "what it means". The authors of The Bible Now, who are experts on the Old Testament (or, for Jews, the Hebrew Bible...
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News in brief
United StatesEmeritus largesseA hedge fund billionaire has donated $150 million (£97 million) to a US university where he was once a professor of mathematics. James H. Simons made the donation to...
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Balance of error? Critics warn of free thought's fall
Report on Ben-Gurion department 'runs counter' to academic independence. Matthew Reisz writes
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For Oz sector, the darkest hour is just before Knight
The income generated by education exports in Australia has fallen by 15 per cent as a result of a downturn in the number of overseas students choosing to study in the country.
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILESRC/Department for International Development Joint Scheme for Research on International Development (Poverty Alleviation)• Award winner: Catherine M. Campbell•...
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Split in funding could lead to sector schism
Separate agreement for research may tempt elite to quit student loans system. Simon Baker writes