Le Corbusier and the Architectural Promenade
Simon Richards follows monks and milliners on a journey through the work of a modernist architect
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Here, Tim Wu takes as his theme the US' domination of the information industries throughout the 20th century. Starting with telegraphy and telephony in the late 19th century and moving through film,...
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The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast
A quick internet search will reveal a subgenre of homemade joyriding videos uploaded by teenagers across the UK. These clips typically show rather grainy footage of several cars being raced around...
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology
A laudatory biography transports Benjamin Ivry back to the time of a great innovative scientist
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Imagining Mars: A Literary History
The planet Mars, often our nearest planetary neighbour, holds a special fascination for those of us whose attention is apt to wander from our immediate surroundings. The sight of that coloured fleck...
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Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition
His learning curve is great," Barack Obama's top adviser David Axelrod once told a reporter, recounting how he coached Obama to make vivid use of the stories told to him by voters during his US...
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The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
A persuasive analysis of the training/employment mismatch leaves Roger Brown looking for answers
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Age of Fracture
In the early 1990s, the hottest (or coolest) of the new African-American intellectuals, Cornel West, was asked to compare his reading of race with that of the architect of Afrocentrism, Molefi Kete...
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Material Nation: A Consumer's History of Modern Italy
"Eat well, crap well, and don't be afraid of death" was, Emanuela Scarpellini assures us, a Tuscan peasant saying. It is a philosophy worth remembering when you next enter the wonderful restaurant...
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Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World
Martin Bayly appreciates a timely celebration of Afghan art that allows the country's rich history to speak for itself
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The Pick - Ida Kar, Bohemian Photographer, 1908-74
Credit: Self-portrait/Ida Kar/National Portrait GalleryIda Kar, Bohemian Photographer, 1908-74National Portrait Gallery, LondonFrom 10 March until 19 JuneNovelist Iris Murdoch kneels by a bed and...
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Diary
NottinghamIgloo: VisitorThe London-based duo of Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli, who exhibit under the name of igloo, have created installations, videos, online projects and performances for...
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Traitor? Moi?
Our vice-chancellor has reacted angrily to the assertion by Professor Richard Drayton of King's College London that "vice-chancellors and many administrators have been active quislings" in the recent...
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TV review: The Story of Variety
Gary Day sees irony in a lament about the death of variety theatre and its larger-than-life characters
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Film review: Norwegian Wood
Philip Dodd finds arresting beauty in Norwegian Wood, but the novel's interiority is lost on film