What are you reading? – 24 November 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks, by Geoffrey C. Kabat
Do mobile phones give you brain tumours? Don’t ask the people in white lab coats, says Jennifer Rohn
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British Women of the Eastern Front: War, Writing and Experience in Serbia and Russia, 1914-20, by Angela K. Smith
June Purvis on an engaging study of the doughty pioneers who swapped Edwardian life for the front line
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Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia – in 100 Cities, by Alan Marshall
London as an eco-village? Treehouses in Accra? Danny Dorling lauds beautiful and bold what-ifs
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A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain, by Simon Goldhill
All the spoken and unspoken desires in one household are unveiled in a study of their prolific, and introspective, writings, says Jane Shaw
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Books interview: Lindy Grant
The professor of medieval history and author of Blanche of Castile: Queen of France on the literary and scholarly stepping stones that fuelled her interest in the Middle Ages
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Mass learning must mean web-based study
We have all the elements needed to make online courses succeed, but institutional inertia at well-established universities stymies progress, argues Laurence Brockliss
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To boost social mobility, campuses mustn’t feel a world apart
We have to do more to ensure British-Bangladeshi girls don’t fear they’ll be isolated at university, says Sally Brian
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South Sudan’s scholars need peace offerings
Africa’s newest country is fertile territory for post-conflict research and more, but they need Western help, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok
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Resits are failing students
We read with interest your article on the problems with resit examinations (“Resits may not improve academic performance, says study”, News, 15 November). At our own medical school, we realised a few...
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Who cares wins
There is a particular type of creeping dread that overtakes me at the prospect of a corporate induction, and it was with a secret stash of sudokus that I attended one at the [!University of East...
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Only connect
Articles are written separately, but the answer to many of our problems can be found by joining three of them in the 17 November issue: Janice Kay laments the rise of Trump (/Brexiteers), and how...
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Bureaucracy max
I have had similar experiences to those that Toby Miller describes in being told to keep a daily log of his activity (“My university has asked me to keep a diary of my work, and I hate it”, 19...