Tincture trail from Persia to Isatica
Indigo - Madder Red
Indigo - Madder Red
Once Upon Another Time

Paul Cartledge on a work to inspire students of classical cartography. "Biography/ Is different from Geography./ Geography is about maps,/ While Biography deals with chaps". So ran the original and...
African Languages - African Voices - Introduction to African Linguistics
Vanishing Voices
The Phonology of Norwegian
Biolinguistics
Understanding Children with Language Problems
Transitional Justice
Ethics into Action - Rattling the Cage
Engaging Reason
Human Rights and the Rule of Law
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a prize-winning South African novelist: " For a man of his age, 52, divorced, he has, to his...
All rise for the vice-chancellor. Thank you, bursar. As you will know, this emergency meeting of senate has been called to deal with our recruitment crisis. Despite everyone's best efforts, there is...
As promised on your front page, James Lovelock's review of The Quest for Mars (Books, THES, February 2) did slay some monster myths about Mars. But I would be sad if it spawned a new myth. Lovelock...