Is that a manual?" the librarian asked when I presented him with Janet Adelman's Suffocating Mothers, her celebrated study of Shakespeare's depiction of the mother. As a casual line from a stranger,...
Carrie Rentschler on an astute look at the price paid by Iraqi and US women in a time of conflict
Call me old-fashioned, naive even, but science fiction has always appealed to me principally as a form of escapism. A means of envisaging a world - an Isaac Asimov/Arthur C. Clarke kind of a world -...
He had it all: royal blood, good looks, an immensely rich if unfaithful wife, who provided him with a mansion in Park Lane, and close friendships with film stars. He also had charm by the bucketful....
Drunken, bawdy, creative - English character owes much to 18th-century pleasures, says Timothy Mowl
About 15 years ago, the poet Gary Snyder published an article titled "Is Nature Real?". In it he made a heartfelt complaint: "I'm getting grumpy about the slippery arguments being put forth by high-...
These numbers describe the respective cover versions I own of the Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper, Ian and Sylvia's Four Strong Winds...
ARTS AND DESIGN- Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada: Art and Criticism, 1914-1924By Theresa Papanikolas, curator of European and American art, Honolulu Academy of ArtsAshgate, £55.00ISBN...
If university websites are evaluated only as a marketing tool for attracting undergraduate applicants ("Deciphering the code", 19 August), there is a danger that they will become less usable for...
Alongside universities offering more relevant information on their home pages, they also need to get out there on the sites where students actually communicate and engage. Why is it that a university...
Pondering the usefulness of university presences online, it seems to me that one crucial factor is missing - namely a facility for interacting with university vice-chancellors. A weekly session...
I don't know who Renata Salecl has been hanging about with (maybe it's all Lacanian theorists round her way) ("Decisions, decisions", 19 August), but if she'd care to visit us in Cardiff it would be...
Despite some negative reporting on the recent National Student Survey published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England ("The art of joy in short supply at creative colleges, NSS shows",...
While I share the concerns of Julian Huppert MP about advocating science in Parliament, your report on "A geneticist in the House" (12 August) is mistaken in stating that Huppert is "one of only two...
The claims about universities and diplomas in Times Higher Education fail to explain that very few students chose to take the advanced diploma in 2008 (The Week in Higher Education, 19 August). It...