The Danger of Romance: Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions, by Karen Sullivan
Helen Fulton ponders whether romantic quests can lead readers to revelations
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The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll, by Randall J. Stephens
Clive Marsh tunes in to the rock on which evangelicals built appeals to widen their flock
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Books interview: Tom Shippey
The author and professor emeritus discusses his inspirations, ‘the Viking mindset’ and the books he has waiting to be read
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The Effective Scientist: A Handy Guide to a Successful Academic Career, by Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Book of the week: this book offers PhDs sound advice, Jennifer Rohn says, but it skirts the improbability of making it
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Mexico’s brain drain leaves universities struggling to fill research posts
Drug-related crime, rising unemployment and low salaries are all contributing to a postgraduate shortage that indicates an uncertain future for Mexico’s higher education system, finds Rachael Pells
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White Rose: courage under fire
It was at a Munich university that a group of students formed a non-violent movement to resist the Nazi regime. Their courageous idealism sets an example that, Kenneth Asch hopes, continues to flower...
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Education is a public solution to the invasion of privacy
Relatively liberal eras cannot restrain subsequent authoritarian regimes, but we can teach societies to see through propaganda, writes Paul Jump
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End ideologues’ reign over imperial history
How can Kim Wagner and James McDougall claim the high ground on historical scholarship (“Don’t mistake nostalgia about the British Empire for scholarship” , Opinion, 26 April) when the best they can...
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Don’t waive; fight
I wonder if other readers of Times Higher Education share my concern that academic publishers are asking authors of scholarly works to sign away one of the protections they are given in law: the...
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Under cover
In the feature “Spies like us”, Anthony Glees (19 April) makes some telling points about the relation between academia and the security services. Academics will always be attracted by the possibility...
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Italy’s depleted academic body is unlikely to be fattened up
Whichever parties form the new Italian government, higher education and research are unlikely to be priorities, says Davide Donina