Moving words
Cheerless and drab but 'full of amazing stuff'. The British Library Newspapers collection at Colindale is moving and also becoming increasingly digitised. Huw Richards wonders if researchers will...
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Book of the week: Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World
James Stevens Curl praises a masterly study of a German polymath
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Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating
Alan Ryan backs the brickbats for Labour but senses a confusion at the heart of this polemic
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Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Victorian scientists were eager popularisers when building the standing of their new profession. The likes of Thomas Huxley were as likely to be found lecturing to working men or dashing off an essay...
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The canon: Christianity in the West 1400-1700. By John Bossy
Startling originality is a rarity in history writing. It is perhaps particularly rare when writing the history of religion, where it is so hard to escape the constraints of dogma and institutional...
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Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland
A new biography explains to David Revill the mystery of Sibelius' loss of creativity in later life
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Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction
The young men would gaze into each other's eyes. They might hold hands. One of them would fall ill, and his friend would murmur caring nothings at the bedside. It was a familiar scenario in 19th-...
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Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics
Shakespeare has perennially been perceived as in need of rescue. In the 18th century, a squadron of editors, including Pope and Johnson, sought to rescue Shakespeare's drama from corruption on stage...
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The Trials of Academe: The New Era of Campus Litigation
Academic freedom is not a licence for sloppy or unprofessional behaviour, says David Palfreyman
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The Artist's Eyes: Vision and the History of Art
Alex Danchev on a clear-sighted, but narrowly focused, study
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Library of Corporate ResponsibilitiesEdited by Tom D. Campbell, professorial fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt...
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Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
John Armitage contemplates a meditation on our preoccupation with vanishings and reappearances
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Safer Sex in the City: The Experience and Management of Street Prostitution
This edited volume focuses on the violence experienced by street sex workers and examines how street prostitution could be managed to reduce the risk of violence, its two sections dealing with the...
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Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy
As newspaper owners around the world battle with the problem of trying to find a way of making news on the web pay, this should be a very timely book - and it almost is.Alex Jones brings a special...
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Cuts are inevitable, so let's join the debate 1
Civil servants always complain about funding cuts. Police are the "thin blue line" between peace and anarchy. Without firemen, our cities would burn to the ground. Doctors keep us alive. And...