Manchester neuroscientist resigns
Annmarie Surprenant, the scholar accused of marking irregularities, stands down. Melanie Newman reports
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Birkbeck’s Kiwi flagship sinks
University says Centre for New Zealand Studies is unsustainable, despite £100,000 donation from NZ Government last year. Melanie Newman reports
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1984: It's coming
In the 25 years since the iconic film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopia, US society has crept ever closer to its bleak vision of paranoia, surveillance, perpetual war and unthinkingness, fears...
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Winning the war of independence
The contrast between British and American higher education is nowhere more apparent than in the levels of scholarly freedom enjoyed by academics on opposite sides of the pond. Here, Paul A. Taylor...
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Freedom eclipsed by danger
David J. Gunkel applauds diversity, equality and protection of tenure at US colleges, but despairs at legislation that allows guns in the classroom
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The small scientist
Almost by accident, 25 years ago Alec Jeffreys discovered DNA fingerprinting and revolutionised criminal profiling. He tells Zoë Corbyn that 'the unexpected is what science should deliver'
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Book of the week: History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood
Philip Smallwood says this great philosopher's story is long overdue
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Reporting the World
The reporter Keith Kyle knew how to shape a good story, especially his own, says Alex Danchev
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The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
The American creative writing programme. Hardly are those words out when a vast image troubles our sight. Gone is the Shelley Circle and the Bloomsbury Group; gone the Jamesian high tea and Hemingway...
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The Canon. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life. Theodor Adorno
What might Theodor Adorno have said about Michael Jackson? Frank Zappa claimed that rock music writing was produced by people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, to provide articles...
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Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television
Sci-fi's visions of what is to come tell us much about present preoccupations, writes John Gilbey
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Fresh: A Perishable History
Food has always been a (in some ways the) central concern of mankind, but of late it has received unprecedented press: from a spate of books on "proper eating" to celebrity chefs moving beyond...
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Frankenstein: Icon of Modern Culture
It may be impossible today to envisage Victor Frankenstein's Monster without invoking the grotesque that Boris Karloff created in the corny but influential 1931 cinema adaptation, one of the first of...
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Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education
Roger Brown enjoys a timely text that shows we cannot afford to starve the academy of funds
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Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
America's suburbs grew dramatically in the years after the Second World War, and the developer William Levitt was a key figure in the expansion. In Levittown, David Kushner paints a compelling...