Love me, love my work
The secret to a long-lasting relationship within academia, says Dale Salwak, is understanding the unique demands of each other's careers
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Marital bliss
It may not be an exact science, but when it comes to finding love, some academics have found they need not look beyond the ivory tower, writes Sarah Cunnane
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Never again
Collective ignorance meant that military personnel watched the early atomic tests with no protection. Former US Marine Gerald Houseman recalls the day that he has regretted ever since
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Book of the week: In Search of Civilization
Fred Inglis admires the ambition more than the paean to advertising
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Higher Education in the United Kingdom since 1945
Telling the history of higher education in one volume is a tall order, says Geoffrey Alderman
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War: A Short History
Jeremy Black is a realist. He foresees no Utopian end to human history. In this brief book, he aims to re-examine war, a dominant and continuing force in the modern world, "by providing a short...
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The Canon: Documents in Mycenaean Greek. By Michael Ventris and John Chadwick
When I was born on 6 October 1951, a 29-year-old British architect was working away in a flat in the Highpoint apartments in Highgate, London. He was finally seeing glimmers of the light at the end...
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Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Elizabeth Rechniewski revels in a scholarly account of Parisians breaking the bounds of normality
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Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches
Robert Wuthnow has been one of the leading and most prolific sociological commentators on American religion for the past three decades. His most recent book, true to form, is topical and grounded in...
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The Generalissimo • The Age of Openness • Global Shanghai, 1850-2010
Jonathan Fenby takes a mixed view of a new examination of the Chinese leader eclipsed by Mao
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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
Anthropologists have studied art since the 19th century. They have learnt which approaches are worth the candle, and which aren't. Denis Dutton's book is a counterblast to this intellectual tradition...
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Thriving on a Riff
Trevor Herbert finds resonance in an account of the influence of jazz on American books and films
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So Clean: Lord Leverhulme, Soap and Civilization
Considering that William Lever was such an important late-Victorian and Edwardian public figure, he has garnered relatively little attention compared with his industrialist contemporaries such as...
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After the Car
As I was completing this review, I chanced upon a New York Times blog entitled "Car-Free in America", in which four prominent American scholars discussed the same topic as Kingsley Dennis and John...
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Screen Education: From Film Appreciation to Media Studies
The case for the study of cinema was hard fought, not least among the believers, finds Philip Kemp