Fear and loathing in Chicago
A bitter economic wind blew through the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference last month. David Gewanter saw it snap a few authors out of their usual self-obsession
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The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs Religion Debate
Celia Deane-Drummond admires the author's passion, but not his philosophy
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Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11
This book is the work of an American political scientist at Rutgers University and is clearly written and mercifully free of jargon. The closest it comes to jargon is its focus on the American "...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Portsmouth
1. Foundations Spanish 1, Second Edition by Cathy Holden and Maria del Carmen Gil Ortega. Palgrave Macmillan, £19.99. ISBN 97802302172632. Managing Business Relationships by Ray French. Pearson...
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Book of the week - The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi
Robert Appelbaum savours the genius in a culinary compendium
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The week in books
The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson, associate fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Yale University Press, £16.99, ISBN 9780300125702"The book is...
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Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
Michelle Harvey is fascinated by a historical look at the deployment of insects in battle
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Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare's Festive World
The title of this book alludes to two seminal texts on Shakespeare and festivity, Shakespeare's Festive Comedy by C.L. Barber and Shakespeare's Festive World by Francois Laroque. Phebe Jensen...
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Reframing Social Citizenship
Peter Taylor-Gooby's book is an impressive edifice, but not a stable one. Meticulously planned and plotted though it is, the dry rot of internal contradiction threatens its structure. This book...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Manager's Tale: Stories of Managerial IdentityBy Patrick Reedy, lecturer in organisational behaviour, University of Nottingham. Ashgate, £55.00....
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We are all crazy now
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has declared that he "totally agrees" with Dr Bruce Charlton of Newcastle University, who recently argued that universities lack sufficient...
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RAE scales tipped to unbalance humanities 1
There were 83 submissions to the history unit of assessment in the 2008 research assessment exercise, and the panel found some evidence of international quality in every one.We are deeply...
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RAE scales tipped to unbalance humanities 2
Paul Whiteley argues that Hefce ignored the results of the RAE in allocating funding for 2009-10 (Letters, 12 March). He cites a lack of correlation between the average RAE score and the change in...
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Lifelong affairs 1
In the past week, three universities - Bristol, Reading and Manchester - closed their public programmes of courses for adults.The closure of such programmes, which have reached hundreds of thousands...
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Lifelong affairs 2
As the proposer of the Parliamentary early day motion in support of the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL), I was surprised by your account of the organisation's Westminster lobby with...