Sarah Kane in Context
Christopher Innes on the first collection of essays to focus on a single British playwright of the 1990s
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Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America
We have all heard a story or two about parents who disapprove of their children's choice of spouse. Whether we think of the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or the Draytons in...
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The Canon: Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. By Kerby A. Miller
The notion that the Irish were exiles driven out of Ireland by poverty, hardship and English colonialism was hardly new when, in 1985, Kerby Miller's weighty, learned study hit the bookshelves. After...
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Repairing British Politics
Anthony King on a law scholar's ambitious plan to give the UK its own governmental charter at last
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University Continuing Education 1981-2006: 25 Turbulent Years
This new volume consists of eight chapters written by nine contributors who between them have experience of continuing education in more than a dozen universities. They illustrate the issues that...
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Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents
Tony Judt applies the ominous Oliver Goldsmith soundbite that provides this book's title to a Western world afflicted by economic crisis, gross inequalities, insecurity and fear. One of his messages...
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Dude, Can You Count?
If you look past its idiosyncratic style, Chris Howls believes this book's underlying message adds up
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Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character
Made in America is a thoughtful assessment of the patterns of American life over the course of the past several centuries. Claude S. Fischer, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley,...
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Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture
The militarisation of entertainment, or what Roger Stahl astutely labels "militainment", is a new social formation for our catastrophic times. In a year when The Hurt Locker won both cinema awards...
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The Tyranny of Guilt
Has Europe vanquished its monsters or have they just changed shape? wonders Robert Eaglestone
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Spare us the league table moralising 1
In your editorial "Some very necessary measures" (8 July), you state: "Arguing that rankings compare apples and oranges is not an excuse to give students a lemon. Until universities themselves can...
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Spare us the league table moralising 2
Ellen Hazelkorn throws doubt on the validity of university league tables, but could have gone further ("Handle with care", 8 July).The impulse to measure is at root Gradgrindian and these days is a...
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Lead gift horses to water
In response to Michael Earley's argument about the role vice-chancellors can play in attracting philanthropic income ("Heads must show that charity begins at the top", 1 July), Mark Featherstone-...
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We touched a nerve
I must thank John Coyne for his scathing review of The Trouble with Higher Education, the book I co-authored with Patrick Smith ("Pub economists' pint of bitter", 8 July). It is only by means of such...
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Census insensibility
Cutting waste in the British public sector is one thing; abolishing British history is quite another. The coalition government's proposals to kill off the national census after 2011 will seriously...