Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages
Hamlet, David Bevington concludes, "helps us to understand ourselves and who we are socially". It's quite a claim, but one that this slender vessel ably justifies. Bevington synthesises the Hamlet...
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The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France
Handbags at the dawn of the modern age? There's more to it than that, writes Biancamaria Fontana
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Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation
Amid the current speculation in the UK about new providers entering the embryonic higher education marketplace comes this timely book from the US. In it one quickly discovers that "reinventing"...
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
In this work of a lifetime dedicated grandly "a la memoria de mis antecesores", David Abulafia surveys a Mediterranean world from a hunters' camp near Rome, set up "435,000 years before the present...
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Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital
Sally Feldman despairs of an analysis of gender politics that would return us to the Dark Ages
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'Could do better', but please don't sue me for saying so
Fear of litigation has left some scholars unwilling to criticise students' work. David Matthews reports
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Funding cuts leave agricultural college in need of new cash cow
Harper Adams typifies the uncertain financial future faced by specialist institutions. John Morgan writes
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News in brief
United StatesAnti-Semitic, not censorshipThe American Jewish Committee (AJC) has rejected a claim by one of its own officials that some complaints of anti-Semitic incidents on campus amounted to...
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UK aims to play South Korean catch-up
The Korean "goose father" stays at home, making the money needed to keep his children and their mother in a US nest so that his goslings can win places at elite American universities - while he earns...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL• Award winner: Vincenzo Vergiani• Institution: University of Cambridge• Value: £725,2The intellectual and religious traditions of South Asia as seen through the...
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Big AAB arts cohort may leave science in a funding wilderness
Top students' preference for 'cheaper' courses could jeopardise lab-based subjects. John Morgan reports
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Fees go unpaid as Gaddafi crumbles
Institutions face uncertainty over Libyan students' payments as regime collapses. John Morgan writes
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Build up the business assets if you want to get ahead
Experience of knowledge transfer and links with business have become increasingly important to academics trying to win promotion, according to a new survey.
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Starkey's a celebrity, get him out of here
Pundit's Newsnight performance gave history a bad name, scholars write. Jack Grove reports
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English students shun the high road and the low to favourite institutions
Popular Scots universities face the biggest drop in rest-of-UK applications, reports David Matthews