3 September 2009
The place to be? - A head-to-head look at academic life and freedom in the US and the UK
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Sacked Muslim scholar to sue Dutch university
Decision to fire Tariq Ramadan for his work with Iranian-funded TV network was ‘political’, he claims. Melanie Newman reports
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Tweet yourself to a new circle
Twitter is not for exchanging trivia. Rather, as Russell Stannard has recently learnt, it’s a powerful networking tool for academics and institutions
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Union plans academic boycott of London Met
UCU threatens to ‘grey-list’ the institution unless it backs down on job cuts. Melanie Newman reports
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Quids out
Universities are reporting a major decline in donations, with the US worse hit than the UK
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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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'A Senseless, Squalid War': Voices from Palestine 1945-1948
There is no promotion after Jerusalem." So said Ronald Storrs, the first governor of the city under the British Mandate for Palestine after the First World War, as he was packed off to become...
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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