The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture
Douglas Cowie has his eyes opened to the briefest of literary forms: the borrowed bon mot
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The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)
There is danger in giving free rein to the world's most popular search engine, discovers Harold Thimbleby
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The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Slavery and the slave trade in the Americas flourished for 400 years from the 1480s until the 1880s. During that long period, the slave trade was the most important coerced migration of people...
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Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things
As I sit at my computer about to start writing this review, I find myself gently tapping the keys on my keypad, gradually losing myself in the sounds and rhythms afforded by different pressures of my...
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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
Geoffrey K. Pullum savours a guide to the potential of language but feels more modesty is required
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Anatomy of the Red Brigades: The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists
In his first paragraph, Alessandro Orsini makes an attempt on the world record for definitions unmade and issues avoided. "It is a frightening thought", he pronounces, "that envy, resentment and hate...
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Mathematics of Life: Unlocking the Secrets of Existence
Perhaps it was my XY-chromosomes, but at school I chose Latin over biology. To my naive mind, mathematics, physics, chemistry and foreign (even dead) languages appeared systematic, with simple axioms...
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Making it new all over again
As Post-Modernism's star wanes, Andrew Thacker observes, a diverse, multivalent Modernism is drawing fresh scholarly attention
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Diary
EdinburghSinging the ReformationIn the second half of the 16th century, Thomas Wode, a Catholic monk and later Presbyterian minister, left an important legacy in the form of the St Andrews Psalter....
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The Pick - Curtain Call
Credit: www.sdna.tvLeaps of imagination: SDNA's exploration of surreal dreamingCurtain CallThe Roundhouse, LondonThe Roundhouse, a Victorian engine shed that later served as a gin distillery store,...
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Stop going on holiday!
Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, has once again warned that academics who depart from SLERP ("statutory leave email referral protocol") will face disciplinary action.Targett pointed...
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TV review: Torchwood: Miracle Day
Glimpses of gothicism and a sense of deja vu entertain Will Brooker
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Film review: Cowboys & Aliens
In which High Noon meets high-concept sci-fi carnage - and shoots blanks, says Duncan Wu
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Richard Pike, 1950-2011
Whether it was decrying "Mickey Mouse" degrees or rubbishing the oil industry's estimates on remaining petroleum reserves, Richard Pike was not afraid to speak his mind as chief executive of the...
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US debt deal spares $37bn student aid scheme - for now
But Congress cuts billions from research and graduate loan provisions. Jon Marcus reports