Art, Psychoanalysis, and Adrian Stokes: A Biography, by Janet Sayers
A wealth of detail and revealing images bring a troubled critic into focus, says Sharon Kivland
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Paul Klee: The Visible and the Legible, by Annie Bourneuf
Tracey Warr extols a study demonstrating an artist’s deep engagement with the theories, practices and works of his peers
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Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten, by Kate Brown
Howard Segal admires the travelogue of a self-confessed ‘professional disaster tourist’ covering a variety of global wastelands
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Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures: Degrees of Class, by Ciaran Burke
Early experience of class has a large effect on the working lives of graduates, discovers Huw Morris
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What are you reading? – 3 September 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Translation is a powerful teaching tool
Dale Salwak explains why he focuses on the people carrying out the translation process and their effects on the text we read
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Reproducing results: how big is the problem?
Paul Jump examines the many reasons for irreproducibility in science and efforts to tackle it
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Academics in the minority at more than two-thirds of UK universities
Analysis of Hesa data reveals the extent to which academics are outnumbered by support staff
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Kick-start learning by giving students a lecture ‘trailer’
Nicholas Morton is road-testing some unusual ways to get, and keep, students’ attention
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How US higher education takes care of its poor
The American system isn’t ideal but it beats the UK’s, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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The age issue won’t be solved by driving out old scholars
Pushing out senior academics to make room for younger ones would only perpetuate an insidious ageism, says Geoffrey Alderman
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The essay is a 1,000-word bore. Discuss
The traditional medium for assessing students is a tired, restrictive form. It’s time for more dynamic, creative ones, argues Karen Harris
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The week in higher education – 3 September 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press