In the age of The X Factor, it is difficult to assess someone else's work without slipping into the Simon Cowell syndrome. For a literary critic, it feels as though reading for review has become a...
Electronification won't kill off books entirely, discovers Andreas Hess
At last a work that unpacks the reality of US rural poverty, writes Rebekah Peeples Massengill
It's not often that you find fashionable chefs such as Moro's Samuel Clark or Nigella Lawson endorsing the latest book on human evolution, but then this is an unusual and compelling read. Richard...
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of FirmsEdited by Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman chair in economics, Harvard...
A broadbrush approach to 1930s US culture sweeps too far and wide, says Susan Currell
It is timely that Jo Phoenix's edited collection, Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK, should have made its way into print just after the Policing and Crime Act 2009 became...
This is a book about the delight of art and the art of delight. It traffics in "imaginancies", to use the term David Cast borrows from Inigo Jones after Baldassare Castiglione (appropriation being an...
Dramatic insight into Hefce's plans for revising the impact score in the forthcoming research excellence framework have been given to The Poppletonian by an "inside source".Speaking "off the record"...
Simplify grant applications and release time for teaching, says Tim Birkhead
Hefce should 'normalise' results in the REF, an eminent scientist recommends. Zoë Corbyn reports
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If climate research is seen as 'tribal' and unable to bear scrutiny, the whole scientific edifice is weakened
It is often said that people who are troubled by prejudice should not teach in South Korea, because discrimination afflicts all levels of education there.What seems certain is that South Korean...
A historian who transformed our understanding of wartime France has died.Nicholas Atkin was born in Lincolnshire on 18 September 1960 and studied at the local grammar school before obtaining a degree...