Shakespeare and Amateur Performance: A Cultural History
When it comes to Shakespeare, we're all amateurs. Jacques Derrida wished to live 200 years to become a Shakespeare expert. Michael Dobson hasn't lived that long, but with four centuries of...
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Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism & Rebellion in the Garden
Clive Bloom celebrates a bravura account of the power of flowers and the politics of a fertile earth
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The Great War and the Making of the Modern World
In an important new book that richly analyses the causes, course and consequences of the First World War, Jeremy Black asks why it remains the "most misunderstood major conflict in history". He draws...
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Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816
"In the early morning of Friday 26 April 1816," David Ellis' book begins, "Lord Byron landed in Ostend." Everyone knows what comes next: according to John William Polidori, Byron "fell like a...
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Manet, the Man who Invented Modernity
Christoph Bode gains perspective on a French master and admires an inspirational relationship between the brothers Caillebotte
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Diary
LeicesterSpreading the Word: Aids Posters from Around the WorldIt is 30 years since the identification of Aids, and the anniversary is being marked by an exhibition at the New Walk Museum (from 15...
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The Pick - Books & Babies
Books & BabiesCambridge University LibraryA scholar sits at a plush desk as a woman in a see-through wrap parades before him. This enticing image forms the frontispiece to a 19th-century edition...
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Dead don shock
We very much regret to report the death by stabbing of one of Poppleton's leading academics.According to unconfirmed reports, Doctor T.W. Petherbridge, of our Department of Medieval History, met his...
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The secret to saving our universities
Steven Schwartz is correct that universities should aspire to cultivating wisdom rather than restricting themselves to the generation and dissemination of knowledge ("Not by skills alone", 16 June)....
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How we work today
I was very amused by Ron McGowan's letter about academics' lack of experience of the modern workplace ("Wisdom à la mode: launch the go-getters", 23 June).His account of modern graduates "trying to...
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Elite's self-preservation
It has long been accepted that one element of institutional autonomy is the appointment of staff. But the argument for complete freedom to terminate contracts unilaterally is not so strong, and the...
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Doesn't make the grade
The White Paper shows the government to lack conviction in its own policy. Limiting the supply of places by maintaining the cap on student numbers allows tuition fees to rise, frightening the...
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Oxford steadfast on Murdoch links
University attests to 'full scrutiny' of endowment from News International. John Morgan reports
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TV review: The Removal Men: Pickfords
Gary Day finds no sweetness in a series about Pickfords, where any dignity is denied for the camera
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Film review: Bobby Fischer Against the World
Philip Dodd finds darkness and oppression in a film of international chess master Bobby Fischer's life