Gloria Monday: Only a crumb of comfort
Although the PhD she examined was as bad as the lunch, Gloria Monday chokes down her objections
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For the last time, ‘Edward III’ is not a sequel!
Study shows that Hollywood’s version of events lingers longer in the mind than historians’ painstaking work. Jon Marcus reports
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Once more unto the breach…
Retired v-c of London South Bank to take the reins at UEL on an interim basis. Melanie Newman reports
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Sell, baby, sell – and remember Betamax
Dan Stern says that the marketisation of research means that academics must abandon the ivory tower and get down and dirty in the marketplace – or face obscurity
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Get it out in the open
From downloads of lectures to entire courses for free, Rebecca Attwood reports on how universities are fitting open educational resources into their missions and marketing
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Digging deeper
Tourists can now visit even the most far-flung destinations, but Judith Weingarten believes that one must settle in for a long stay to get a real sense of foreign lands
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More than mayhem
Alex Prichard considers the rebirth of anarchism as a scholarly subject, its future in an impact-oriented academy and its lessons for democracy
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Book of the week: Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe
Simon Mitton on a tour de force that joins the human and the cosmic
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Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History
Jane Humphries admires the detective work that is rekindling respect for the match girls' strike of 1888
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Kierkegaard: An Introduction
This general introduction to Kierkegaard's thought proves a clear, sober and informative guide both for students coming to Kierkegaard for the first time and for more experienced readers. The book's...
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The Canon. Utopian Thought in the Western World. By Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
Frank Manuel was already a distinguished historian with several excellent books on Utopianism to his credit when, in 1979, he and his wife, Fritzie, published this magnum opus. More comprehensive,...
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The Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
A 19th-century obsession with the macabre was the medieval church's saviour, says James Stevens Curl
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Cinema Entertainment: Essays on Audiences, Films and Film Makers
This short book enters into a debate that has a lengthy history, not only in the context of cinema but in relation to the cultural industries more broadly. From its inception, cinema has found itself...
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
As Donald Rumsfeld memorably observed: "There are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." While it is a truism that we do not know the things we are not conscious of, the...
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The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
A theory that dispels the idea of Earth's systems being self-regulating does not convince Jon Turney