Mining the depths of late-17th- and 18th-century English novels for insights into the cultural and political turmoil of the era is standard practice for scholars; however, in her new book, The...
Darren Paffey finds that the US attitude to bilingualism has been driven by blinkered politics
If anyone wished to know the truly profound power of wealth in Victorian society, then reading Michael Fisher's book would answer their questions. He has written a wonderfully entertaining biography...
John Hale's portrait of ancient Athens and its navy is an informative and fast-paced account that lives up to the phrase "epic story" that appears in the subtitle of its US edition. His style and...
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and FashionEdited by Joanne B. Eicher, emeritus regent's professor, University of Minnesota. Berg Publishers, £995.00. ISBN...
It is remarkable to see how easily the heads of respectable universities are being seduced by models drawn from the market ("Global future: together alone", 29 July). There is clearly a strong case...
I enjoyed Greg Garrard's interrogation of the packed reading lists in university literature courses ("A novel idea: slow reading", 17 June). This is an old problem: however, it is not as old as one...
Why did you publish "Get in shape: lose the fat" (29 July)? That Clive Bloom rants in public against another department in his own institution is bad form, but his article also suffers from a...
Clive Bloom, please get your facts "in shape". His article on the direction of post-1992 institutions, using Middlesex University as the prime example of how we have got things wrong, is totally...
In his otherwise interesting article on the role of poetry today, "The virtue of verse" (29 July), George Watson claims that Modernist works such as Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot "may have been...
George Watson ponders the relevance and impact of poetry in 2010 and does not once mention Bob Dylan. You don't need a weatherman, as the great musician once noted.Keith Flett, London.
Regarding the Universities and Colleges Employers Association's refusal to negotiate a nationwide agreement on job security ("National action over jobs cuts likely, union says", 29 July): Ucea's...
The UK coalition government's strategy for public services, notably the NHS and in all likelihood the academy, is to make massive cuts and then pass to professionals, users and local people...
I find Adrian Quinn's opinion piece extraordinary ("Paying for a course doesn't mean students can buy a degree", 29 July). By stating that attendance at lectures should be compulsory, he seems to...
The inaugural president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester has died.Born in Brisbane, Australia, on 11 September 1944, Alan Gilbert studied history at the Australian National...