Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World
Does language mirror the objects and structures inscribed in reality, or is it rather that reality is reified, structured and even invented by language? Is what we assume to be naturally and...
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The Canon: Sincerity and Authenticity by Lionel Trilling
What value a degree in the humanities? The £25,000 it soon may cost? Indeed, in the age of "impact funding", what value the humanities at all? Lionel Trilling's 1971 book can still guide a thoughtful...
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Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy
It took Italians an age to embrace the tomato, but the rest is juicy history, says Robert Appelbaum
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Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox
Visiting the Temple of Vaccinia in the huge garden of Edward Jenner's house in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, is a delightful experience today. The rustic little building still stands where Jenner...
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Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
In most Western countries, the late 19th century saw a mania for building statues, many of them contentious at the time and many not standing the test of time. Since the late 20th century, we have...
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Politics as Usual: What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric
S. Subramanian finds uncomfortable reading in the power play between the North and the South
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Thinking, inside the box
BBC Four aims to touch parts of the brain other channels do not reach. Matthew Reisz speaks to Richard Klein, its controller, who says that academics, together with their passions, have key roles to...
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Mac the knife
Duncan Wu's inner adolescent rejoices in a crazy tale of an armed pensioner's battle with injustice
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Daytime TV: Creative impulses
Gauguin and Vaughan Williams had unconventional private lives, but they created beauty, says Gary Day
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Diary
LondonShakespeare is GermanWilliam Shakespeare is almost as significant a figure in German as in British culture. From 7 October to January 2011, London's Goethe-Institut - together with the Globe...
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The Pick - Gods, monsters and giants
The Times Cheltenham Literary Festival8-17 OctoberCheltenhamThe Times Cheltenham Literary Festival is celebrating its 60th birthday this year. It will feature plenty of celebrities, public figures...
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End envious attacks of green-eyed chauvinism 1
Thank you for "Sisters' winning formula" (30 September), which tackled the discrimination women face in the academy. It is refreshing to see that this important issue is gaining more visibility. It...
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End envious attacks of green-eyed chauvinism 2
Your editorial strongly supports Amanda Goodall's cover story demolishing any notion of innate differences between the sexes that can explain the glaring under-representation of women in world...
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End envious attacks of green-eyed chauvinism 3
It may be desirable, and even possible, to attract more women into engineering, although repeated attempts over the past 50 years have failed (review of Gender Inclusive Engineering Education, Books...
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Formula for fallibility
We found your summary of Jim Tomlinson's observations on the Byzantine processes employed by research councils particularly apposite given our recent experience with the Economic and Social Research...