No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
Do maps themselves contribute to the imposition and construction of social controls, asks Joni Seager
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The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairy Tales
Interest in the child in film has grown in recent years, with texts such as Vicky Lebeau's Childhood and Cinema (2008) and Emma Wilson's Cinema's Missing Children (2003) offering insight into this...
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Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage
Is that a manual?" the librarian asked when I presented him with Janet Adelman's Suffocating Mothers, her celebrated study of Shakespeare's depiction of the mother. As a casual line from a stranger,...
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Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War
Carrie Rentschler on an astute look at the price paid by Iraqi and US women in a time of conflict
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From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
Call me old-fashioned, naive even, but science fiction has always appealed to me principally as a form of escapism. A means of envisaging a world - an Isaac Asimov/Arthur C. Clarke kind of a world -...
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Mountbatten: Apprentice War Lord 1900-1943
He had it all: royal blood, good looks, an immensely rich if unfaithful wife, who provided him with a mansion in Park Lane, and close friendships with film stars. He also had charm by the bucketful....
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Spas, Wells, and Pleasure-Gardens of London
Drunken, bawdy, creative - English character owes much to 18th-century pleasures, says Timothy Mowl
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The Ecological Thought
About 15 years ago, the poet Gary Snyder published an article titled "Is Nature Real?". In it he made a heartfelt complaint: "I'm getting grumpy about the slippery arguments being put forth by high-...
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Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music
These numbers describe the respective cover versions I own of the Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper, Ian and Sylvia's Four Strong Winds...
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGN- Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada: Art and Criticism, 1914-1924By Theresa Papanikolas, curator of European and American art, Honolulu Academy of ArtsAshgate, £55.00ISBN...
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News in brief
ChinaInternational students look EastThe rise of China as a destination for international students has been highlighted by the Global Times newspaper. While China has long been one of the largest...
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Academic freedom now under fire from Israeli campaigners
Criticism of universities has provoked a sharp response, reports Matthew Reisz
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Grant winners
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilCareer Acceleration FellowshipsAward winner: G.J. OfferInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £672,986Investigating carbon formation in solid...
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Blogconfidential: More smoke than fire?
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: More smoke than fire?
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Appointments
University of NottinghamJohn KingAn international lectureship has been awarded to a mathematician at the University of Nottingham. John King said that maths was a subject he "latched on to" from an...