Rationality and the Literate Mind
Raphael Salkie is unimpressed by the latest work from a controversial scholar
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Faulkner and Love
A quarter of a century ago, Judith Sensibar set up in opposition to William Faulkner's "official" biographer, Joseph Blotner, by insisting that Faulkner's ten-year "unromantic but fascinating"...
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The Tudor Queens of England
Recently, "our greatest living historian", David Starkey, announced that Tudor queens were not important - admittedly after writing about them himself, when a rather different view was put forward....
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Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings
A compilation of the works of a highly regarded, influential painter is appreciated by Duncan Wu
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What Mothers Say About Special Education: From the 1960s to the Present
It would be generous to describe books on special education as appealing to a niche market. If education is one of the least attractive of the academic disciplines, special education is merely a...
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Medieval English Drama
Katie Normington's careful study of drama considers the period between the first recognisable performance text (the Winchester Regularis Concordia from around 965) and the establishment of the first...
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
Natalie Gold is intrigued by an exploration of what makes us tick, and how it affects the economy
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Book of the week: Replenishing the Earth
Donald MacRaild admires a novel account of the rise of the Anglo-world
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Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction
Carolyn Lesjak navigates a meticulous reading of Victorian novels with verbal conflict at its heart
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The Rhetoric of Modernism: Le Corbusier as a Lecturer
Lectures played a very important role in Le Corbusier's strategy for converting people to the cause of his new architecture and for the acquisition of clients and other influential connections. They...
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The Canon: Theatres of Memory. Volume 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel
First published in 1994, Raphael Samuel's collection of loosely affiliated essays presents a compelling argument about the nature, purpose and value of historical knowledge and investigation. The...
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The Pure Society: From Darwin to Hitler
Simon Underdown disagrees with the premise that racism is part of evolution, rather than a crime
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingEDUCATION- Global Education: Using Technology to Bring the World to Your StudentsBy Laurence Peters, University of MarylandISTE, $31.95ISBN 9781564842589Peters provides an...
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HR's union rhetoric is stuck in the 1980s 2
The "conservative, fearful culture" that is "holding universities back" is not the creation of campus trade unions. Rather, it is due to the reluctance of university managements to address the long-...
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Exam boards out of touch 1
So the A-level results have been released for 2009 and show a 97 per cent pass rate. There are all sorts of comparisons that we can make with the pass rates of 25 years ago. We can decry both...