Surviving Death
Do a 'protean' nature and selflessness assure us a life after the end? Christopher Belshaw is unsure
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The New Old World
Readers who appreciate Perry Anderson's wide-ranging essays for the London Review of Books (including this reviewer) will be pleased to have this anthology of them in book form. Seven of the ten...
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The Canon: Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse. By John Hollander
Every academic is intellectually complete, a "finished man among his enemies" as Yeats put it. Still, we like a quick study on the sly: a night with Yoruba grammar, some hard action with Mandelbrot's...
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The Second Sex
A fresh interpretation has breathed new life into a seminal feminist text, discovers Mary Evans
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Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West
Do we need another study showing that happiness cannot be bought and that too much is bad for the self and for society? There are already three recent studies entitled Affluenza that highlight its...
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Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
This sumptuously illustrated volume of essays is a successful attempt to evoke the complex plan of a unique house with the glitter of its historic contents. Each of its 16 essays breaks off for...
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Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
Piotr A. Cieplak understands the outrage but takes exception to the author's neglect of the evidence
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGN- The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde between Radical Art and Radical ChicBy Mark Silverberg, associate professor of American literature, Cape Breton University, Canada....
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20 institutions face fines for overshooting cap on student numbers
Hefce warns that reduction in grant income could become permanent, writes Melanie Newman
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Thanks for the memories 3
Laurie Taylor commits the common error of confusing a theory and a model. Behaviourism is not a theory, but it is a model. The difference is that a theory is universal, while a model is valid only...
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Protect our strengths and work together
Universities on this side of the Atlantic are also cutting their budgets, but, as at Harvard and MIT, only after taking a long, hard look at how to protect the strengths of their institutions ("An...
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Careless casualisation
A footnote to the sad record of academic exploitation: universities, it would seem, have cottoned on to the cost-saving strategy of employing staff on 10-month teaching contracts commencing in...
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Is hard work the full story? 1
Top marks to Wayne Martin ("Students swear by module of 'obscenely hard' work", 11 March) for working "obscenely hard" for students who work "obscenely hard" in return (or is it the other way round...
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Is hard work the full story? 2
The article "Students swear by module of 'obscenely hard' work" seems to have been published a couple of editions too soon. I was under the impression that such spoof articles appeared in Times...
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Rhetorical take on rhetoric
As teachers on the first MA in rhetoric in the UK, we found the picture of rhetoric presented in your article "Tony, George and Adolf's fighting talk" (11 March) seriously one-sided.We welcome...