A view too far
I often have the feeling that Laurie Taylor writes most of your opinion pieces, but Alan Ryan's attempt to write an entire article on Oxbridge governance (Opinion, 16 April) while pretending that the...
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Canonical texts: are these the most influential books ever written?
Are you obsessed with a 'baggy monster' or has a photocopied pamphlet sparked your passion for a whole new area of research? To kick off our new weekly series, leading scholars explain which books...
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23 April 2009
The canon - The most influential books ever written?
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Tara Brabazon: I’m not going to be your monkey
Satirical news programme The Daily Show does more than poke fun at the powers that be. It condemns lazy and populist broadcasting, and urges us to question what we are told and what we choose to...
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Expel Israeli ambassador, UCU Congress will demand
Conference motion will call on Government to support Palestinian self-determination, but an academic boycott of Israel is not on the agenda. Melanie Newman reports
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The Bullied Blogger: Nothing can stop the Spanish Inquisition
14 April: Dominic did not check my last email to human resources and when he arrives home and reads it he is despairing. He feels I am too stressed and too emotionally involved to be able to write...
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British academic’s work used to justify US torture
Professor Jim Horne is ‘saddened and appalled’ by Bush Administration’s efforts to exploit his book to excuse 180-hour stints of sleep deprivation. Melanie Newman reports
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Security expert hits back at UUK memo
Chief executive Diana Warwick tells v-cs that she ‘briefed’ Today programme about Anthony Glees, but academic reiterates claim that universities’ student visa procedures are too lax. Melanie Newman...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers.
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Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy
An analysis of how higher education is responding to current challenges impresses Huw Morris
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Political Tourism and Its Texts: Cultural Spaces
The most conspicuous feature of Maureen Moynagh's book on political tourism is its style; conspicuous because she confesses it early, insistently. Page one, paragraph two: "This study speaks to the...
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The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945
When I first picked up Martin Francis' The Flyer, with its cover portrait of a handsome young airman by Eric Henri Kennington, I expected yet another collection of tales of derring-do by British...
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Darwin's Luck: Chance and Fortune in the Life and Work of Charles Darwin
Stephen Halliday enjoys an unusual book about Darwin, but wonders at its focus on his fortunes
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Exploring Professionalism
As this review is for Times Higher Education, I will confine myself to the question "Are academics professional?"That wisest of all vice-chancellors, Eric Ashby, touched twice in his life on this...
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Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility
Alex Khasnabish's Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility is an ambitious and timely book that examines the resonance of the revolutionary movement Zapatismo, and its...