Portrait of a poet
Eva Shan Chou lauds an original, erudite portrait of a writer whose courage matched her creativity

Eva Shan Chou lauds an original, erudite portrait of a writer whose courage matched her creativity

Discussion of underground and emergent queer cultures are interesting, but Caroline Osella wishes for more insight from a respected scholar

Mary Evans agrees that feminism today focuses on women’s agency and identity at the expense of examining framing structures

Gary Day on an exploration of new technologies’ effects on artists’ representation of the world

Ronald Hutton praises a tour de force on the causes of the English Civil War


When the lending system isn’t working, interests rate a check, advises Howard Davies

Use and abuse of abuseFollowing the news that an English lecturer from the University of Nottingham has apologised for describing a third-year student as an “idiot” and “semi-literate” on Facebook,...
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How can it happen that substandard work is submitted for doctoral examination, ask David Alexander and Ian Davis. In their experience, it is because candidates have been allocated supervisors with...

The vampire as cultured aesthete is the beatless heart of Jim Jarmusch’s peculiarly reassuring film, says Lucy Bolton


Sink or swim - Is poor supervision to blame for substandard doctoral theses?

Hepi director’s mea culpa comes as he considers ‘problems in the status quo’

University’s Vampire Fictions course ends with no participants opting to pay for official recognition of their achievement