Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990
Patrick Hannay reflects on the waste and diversion of energy by a movement that purported to cure a cultural malaise
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Diary
LondonBetween Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of AsiaFor many in the West, if they think about the area at all, Afghanistan, Mongolia and the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan...
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The Pick - The Passenger
Credit: Catherine AshmoreThe PassengerEnglish National OperaWe are on a glitzy ocean liner in the early 1960s. Walter, a German diplomat, and his wife Liese are setting off to Brazil. Suddenly she is...
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I'm sorry, I'll write that again
"This could be the end for Lapping." That was the ominous response of Louise Bimpson, Corporate Director of Human Resources, to the revelation that Gordon Lapping, head of our Department of Media and...
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TV review: Hilary Mantel: A Culture Show Special
Hilary Mantel's work is suffused with undercurrents and with what might have been, says Gary Day
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Film review: Mademoiselle Chambon
Duncan Wu finds drama in the smallest gesture in a finely nuanced account of an unexpected passion
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Anna Siewierska, 1955-2011
Anna Siewierska was best known in academic circles for her work in linguistic typology, but her colleagues also remember her excellent hosting skills, her friendly nature and her love of hiking and...
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Appointments
Social Policy AssociationSue DuncanSue Duncan, who was the UK's first chief government social researcher, has been named the new president of the UK Social Policy Association. Professor Duncan, who...
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Odds and quads
This 18-carat gold cigarette case belonged to Harry Price (1881-1948), a writer, amateur conjuror and ghost hunter who, in 1923, set up the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, in order "to...
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Research intelligence - When predicting winners, it pays to follow the papers trail
Nobel prize forecasts for 2011 utilise highly referenced 'citation laureates'. Paul Jump reports
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Stapel diet of fraud
Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ‘betrayers of the truth’
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From where I sit - Not all the leaves are brown
AB 131, the second half of the proposed legislation popularly known as the California Dream Act, is currently awaiting final ratification. If approved, it will give undocumented Californian residents...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
University of East AngliaLiquid hunches are not enoughDehydration is a severe problem for the elderly, causing confusion and falls and making hospital admission more likely, yet it is not always easy...
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The week in higher education
• Irish travellers, left-wing activists, European "anarchists" and human rights lawyers: the story about an illegal traveller encampment at Dale Farm in Essex has proved manna from heaven for the...