How it Ends: From You to the Universe
The fate of humans and that of the entire Universe is unknowable but intriguing, finds Simon Mitton
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Moral Combat: A History of World War II
Between 1939 and 1941, nearly 3 million Jews were butchered not in concentration camps but in cold blood, at massacres such as the infamous Babi Yar, where visitors were even invited to watch the...
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Biography
Another book on Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), the Glasgow-born architect, painter and designer, may seem superfluous, but this new substantial volume, graced with superb colour plates by...
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Published this Week
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of MemoryBy Peter Read, professor of French, University of Kent. University of California Press, £24.95. ISBN...
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Book of the week: The Wind from the East
Beneath the political theory, the future: Tim Unwin asks whether it is still too soon to tell what May '68 meant
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When Doctors Kill - Who, Why and How
Lloyd Bradley finds this eclectic trawl through the profession's alleged killers a lot to stomach
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A Short History of Celebrity
While Leo Braudy's history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown, began in antiquity with specific reference to the self-publicising strategies of Alexander the Great, Fred Inglis, in A Short History of...
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The Canon: The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868. By V.A.C. Gatrell
I was a postgraduate when I read V.A.C. Gatrell's utterly gritty - and illustrated! - account of public hangings as a social and political ritual enacted over and over under England's "bloody code"....
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Cake: A Global History
Robert Appelbaum savours a small remembrance of gateaux past and is left hungry for more
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African American Writers and Classical Tradition
In African American Writers and Classical Tradition, William Cook and James Tatum, professors emeriti of English and African American studies and of Classics, respectively, analyse the influence of...
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Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616
In a recent interview for Times Higher Education, the world's foremost Shakespearean, Stanley Wells, distances himself from the literary theorists: "I ... see myself as a sort of populariser. I have...
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Sifting great students from the very good
The fear that state-school students, or pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, will be overlooked by top universities is not a new concern brought about by the introduction of A* grades at A level.It...
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Greens under the beds
Martin Cohen seems determined to reveal some dark hidden truth about the potential for profit in climate change, but this is to miss the point ("Profits of doom", 29 July).Energy supply is a...
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Hold on, we have a problem
The report "University of Cambridge: 'Goldilocks' and the three bids" (Campus round-up, 29 July) is misleading. Cambridge has not "topped a shortlist". As the UK Space Agency's press release on the...
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McCarthy? No, integrity
It is important to point out that voicing support for a boycott of Israel and its academic institutions is perfectly legal and is part and parcel of freedom of expression in the country ("Is the...