Face values
Most Facebook users have not, as is often charged, lost their sense of appropriate behaviour; rather, the site has relaxed some social rules, argues Kathleen Richardson
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth
Hester Vaizey hails a vivid portrayal of the queens who thwarted the constraints on their sex
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The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice Caps
A chilling look at our possible destiny indicates the limits of human adaptability, says Barry Brook
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Few moments in 20th-century American popular music have been quite so maligned as the disco years. They are inevitably characterised as a tasteless age defined by testosterone-charged men strutting...
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The Canon: How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939 by Donald Cameron Watt
My relationship with How War Came began in 1989. I was a wide-eyed history postgraduate at the University of Toronto. I enrolled in a course on the causes of the Second World War and our tutor told...
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Derrida: Profanations
Robert Eaglestone applauds an important but rather obscure interpretation of Derrida's work
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How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog
If you have spent your life wondering how to understand one of the most counter-intuitive branches of science without going near the heavy mathematics, then this book may be for you. Armed with an...
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Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market
This is a long-overdue comprehensive analysis of the work of institutional economist and political commentator, Karl Polanyi. Gareth Dale's book strikes a helpful balance between, on the one hand, a...
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Lupus in fabula
Paul Gauguin is the subject of a major international exhibition. Alex Danchev considers the Conradian life of the artist, his restlessness, his knack for self-publicity, his carefully crafted 'savage...
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Bran Nue Dae
Musical-loathing Duncan Wu is won over by the bright-hued cheek of an Aboriginal song and dance
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Daytime TV: Buon appetito
Old flames quaff too much Chianti over lunch, says Gary Day, while a copycat killer stalks the East End
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Diary
BirminghamCardinal John Henry NewmanCardinal Newman (1801-90), who was beatified on 19 September by Pope Benedict XVI, had close connections with the city of Birmingham, where he founded the Oratory...
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The Pick - Hues and cries turned inside out
Turner Prize 2010Tate BritainUntil 3 January 2011This year's Turner Prize nominees, whose work is now on display at Tate Britain in London, are well chosen to arouse the usual mixture of enthusiasm,...
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Sustainable pensions, passionate debate 1
Sally Hunt's article "Divided we fall" (7 October) fails to recognise that the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme are the minimum required to ensure that an affordable,...
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Georges Charpak, 1924-2010
A Nobel prizewinning physicist who greatly enhanced our ability to derive useful information from atom-smashing experiments has died.According to a speech he gave last year, Georges Charpak was born...