Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
A sonic explorer gives Andrew Blake a new channel into the ambient soundscape and its effects on us
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The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910
Robin Feuer Miller on an admirable reassessment of the writer's strange and melodramatic death
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The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590-1640
"Sermon" is a word with an image problem. But then so is "lecture". During the week, I'm a lecturer; on Sundays I morph into an Anglican lay preacher. For a while, in both jobs I held the title of...
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The Canon: Howard Hawks by Robin Wood
No book in the entire field of film studies has had a greater impact on me than this one. Robin Wood's passionate and insightful analysis is the best possible companion to the films of the great...
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The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages
Despite the awkward translation, Helen Castor is moved by an absorbing study of medieval life
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European Governmentality: The Liberal Drift of Multilevel Governance
From the very beginning of European integration in the 1950s onwards, observers have disagreed about whether the process is driven by European states and adds to their power or, on the contrary, sets...
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Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive
Blog Theory brings the heavy guns of literary theory to bear on the purportedly trivial activity of blogging. The usual artillery is deployed - a bombardment of arguments from Slavoj Žižek and...
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Two cultures, one song
Artist-in-residence schemes create a fertile breeding ground for fresh ideas, as scientists and engineers share their knowledge and insights with those in the humanities. Hannah Fearn discovers how...
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Wings but no prayers
Willy Maley on a brooding two-hander's twitchy vision of the end of love - and possibly the end of times
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Daytime TV: States of mind
Can dreams predict the future - or even influence it? Gary Day watches a personal investigation
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Diary
LondonBritish Library pockets PinterMore than 50 medals, plaques and artworks won by Harold Pinter have been acquired by the British Library under a government scheme aimed at keeping cultural...
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The Pick - Blues and Greys in the UK
Walking tours of American Civil War connections in LondonThe City, Marylebone and Mayfair, daily except MondayIn the US, the American Civil War is much studied in universities and is a focus of...
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Benoît Mandelbrot, 1924-2010
A mathematician who transformed our understanding of "complex systems" - from the shape of clouds to the performance of the stock market - has died.Benoît Mandelbrot was born into a Jewish family in...
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Gone but not forgotten
We are pleased to announce that all members of academic staff have been invited to attend the funeral service for the Quality Assurance Agency, which will be held shortly in a centrally located...
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Browne and the CSR: it is time for Plan B (part 1)
Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, says that implementing the Browne Review will see our world-class university system through a funding "valley of death" ("The sum of our worst fears: UUK...