Book of the week: Le Corbusier and the Occult
Flora Samuel on the arcane undercurrent to the architect's work
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The week in books
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons, PhD candidate in sociology of religion, Monash University. Bloomsbury, £20.00, ISBN 9780747594000"The theory of...
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Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
Lori Brooks explores why trips across US social divides were a popular white middle-class activity
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Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Last Christmas, my Arkansan in-laws gave me Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan. It is a DVD in which Cowboy Jack Clement, who wrote songs for Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, among others,...
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Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film
From the start, it was evident that ghost stories and the movies were made for each other. The earliest cinematic pioneers, such as Georges Melies in France and G.A. Smith in England, soon realised...
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Anti-War Activism: New Media and Protest in the Information Age
John Sloboda on the potential of new technology to make anti-war activism more effective
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Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel
Edmund White first encountered Rimbaud's work in the toilets of his boarding school, which is, indubitably, the place to appreciate the one who celebrated cool, creative latrinal space in The Seven-...
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A pretty pocket
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has professed himself "moderately shocked" by the recent announcement from Universities Secretary John Denham that while recognising the "...
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Denham deluded over funding focus on elite 1
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, will have to devise a very crude alternative to the research assessment exercise if he wants to restrict future funding of "pockets of excellence" in teaching...
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Denham deluded over funding focus on elite 2
The Universities Secretary has apparently identified two models for quality-related (QR) finance - concentrating research funding on what appear to be the existing research-intensive institutions or...
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More transparency needed 1
Tracey Brown, in her letter (26 February) attacking the article on Sense About Science's genetic modification guide and GM Watch's press release about conflicting interests ("Charity guide criticised...
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AHSC is a shot in the arm
I write in response to the article "Imperial faces funding gap as merger takes toll" (19 February).The creation of the Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) has indeed been a major undertaking over...
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V-c should check his facts
I am the Kingston University journalism student who wrote the Surrey Comet article that first highlighted Kingston's misreporting of student non-completions.It is incorrect for Peter Scott, Kingston'...
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Argument is not at fault
It is a pity that Andrew Morgan feels that the only way to meet my argument about teaching quality is to descend to personal insults, asserting that I do "not grasp the notion of scholarly research...
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Don't put down the dying
Malcolm Johnson's arguments logically lead to the euthanising of the mentally ill and the clinically depressed if they don't respond to medication ("Departing with dignity: the ultimate palliative...