Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World, by Lyndall Gordon
Exclusion from male-dominated society fuelled female authors’ creativity, says Gail Marshall
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Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London, by Angus McLaren
Clive Bloom enjoys a sociological study of why a group of rich layabouts became crooks – and how society dealt with them
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Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton, by Rob Iliffe
God was a priority for the often unchristian soul who discovered gravity, says Graham Farmelo
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From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture, by Roslynn D. Haynes
Do you recognise seven stereotypes in literature and film? Richard Joyner appraises a study ranging from Sherlock to Frankenstein
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Books interview: Kate Flint
The author of Flash! on photography in fiction and poetry, and the power of the photographic image
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USS pension reform plan an ‘undesirable’ and ‘retrograde’ step
Pensions expert criticises Universities UK’s ‘outdated’ proposal to end defined benefit scheme for almost 200,000 staff
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What are you reading? – 23 November 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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EU’s ‘Bologna 2.0’ vision threatens to leave UK behind
British universities face potential challenges if they are left outside the ‘Sorbonne process’, experts warn
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The week in higher education – 23 November 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Mary Edmonds, 1932-2017
Tributes paid to pioneering African American university administrator
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Career advice: how to make your university disability-friendly
Sally Everett explains how her institution used low-cost and creative measures to transform its support services
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Interview with Simon Armitage
The Oxford professor of poetry on returning to ‘exotic’ Leeds, why he’s glad he didn’t study English at university, and the future of literature
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Wellcome Trust explores diversity rules for funding applications
Institutions that do not meet standards in areas such as gender may be ineligible for grants
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Tossing and turning: what keeps university staff awake?
Academics and professional staff reveal the things that prey on their minds at 2am
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A University Education, by David Willetts
Book of the week: His passion is evident, his work prodigious, but an ex-minister has blind spots that trouble Nigel Thrift