Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015, by Kate McLoughlin
Victims, heroes, delinquents: those returning from conflict unsettle society, writes Helena Goodwyn
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Stories of Solidarity, by Hywel Francis
Robert Gildea on a history of the South Wales mining community that is full of nostalgia but also looks to the future
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What are you reading? – 15 November 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Universities in developing nations still need support from the Western academy
Despite his stressful sudden exit from Papua New Guinea, John Warren insists that Western universities must continue to send staff to institutions in the developing world
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Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition, by Francis Fukuyama
A thinker revisits democracy’s power to unite in light of populism’s rise, writes Martin Cohen
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Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language, by Yuliya Komska, Michelle Moyd and David Gramling
When authoritarian populists employ the speech forms once deployed to counter totalitarians, how are we to critique what we consider abuses? wonders Deborah Cameron
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Books editor’s blog: it’s a world of numbers – prime yourself
People face a daily blizzard of statistics and figures. With his book Millions, Billions, Zillions, Brian Kernighan tries to help them through the storm. Matthew Reisz writes
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On call: how much support should academics give students?
Round-the-clock demands from students can take a toll on lecturers. With a THE survey highlighting rising expectations, Anna McKie asks where the line should be drawn between professional and private...
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Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age, by Donna Zuckerberg
Book of the week: Rachel O’Neill on a study of how the manosphere cloaks anti-female rhetoric in ancient borrowings
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Australian government ‘waging war’ on universities, says opposition
Government claims universities are neglecting the regions, as relations continue to fracture
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The week in higher education – 15 November 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Student marks raised weeks after league table concerns email
Some grades increased at Teesside using standard formula in case that could be smoking gun on reasons for wider grade inflation
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David Benyon, 1954-2018
Tributes paid to pioneering authority on human-computer interaction
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Interview with Olivette Otele
The UK’s first black female history professor on universities atoning for their pasts and believing in the goodness of others