Fourth Degree by Laurie Taylor – 25 October 2018
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Universities can’t afford to lose goodwill
UK higher education invites trouble if it conveys an impression that students and staff matter only in transactional terms and that diversity is not valued
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Garage, by Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela
Richard Williams rummages round a versatile site that housed cars, computers, start-ups and more
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The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, by Adam Nayman
A primer on the work of the ‘two-headed monster’ teases out the Talmudic and Kubrickian influences on their cinematic universe, says Nathan Abrams
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What are you reading? – 25 October 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories, by Alex Rosenberg
Do we learn incorrect and harmful lessons from our hard-wired love of narrative? asks Gail Marshall
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Liberty, Equality & Humbug: Orwell’s Political Ideals, by David Dwan
A useful critical study shows that George Orwell had a capacity for forcefully expressing views that contradict each other, says Andrew Palmer
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Books editor’s blog: it’s your work – find the words that make it sing
Matthew Reisz finds much valuable and practical writing advice in Joe Moran’s book, a ‘style guide by stealth’ and ‘a love letter to the sentence’
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Helmholtz: A Life in Science, by David Cahan
Book of the week: an intellectual superstar’s work merits more space amid the social history, says Richard Joyner
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US midterms: the academics who tried to switch to politics
Donald Trump’s election prompted US scientific leaders to get more of their own into public office. However, as the midterm elections loom, progress on bringing analytical skills into the political...
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Being working class in the academy
While widening access is high on universities’ agendas at undergraduate level, class barriers still prevail in the academy. Here, five working-class scholars describe their experiences of ‘otherness’
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Central European University moves all new students to Vienna
Liberal institution has been left in legal limbo for 18 months by Viktor Orbán’s government
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Australian minister ‘censored’ humanities research
Political intervention at odds with government’s free speech campaign
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How to deal with inadequate PhD supervision
Vishal Vora won compensation from Soas over a claim for poor support in his doctoral studies. He explains the steps others can take if they have a similar complaint