The week in books
The Long and the Short of It: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry by John Kay, fellow, St John's College, University of Oxford. Erasmus Press...
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Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press
A revised model of journalism's place in the internet age gets a vote of confidence from Tim Luckhurst
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Bad Science
This book is about bullshit. As well as two mentions of it on the cover, there is "drug company bullshit", "the corporations that riddle (our culture) with bullshit", and "the opportunity cost of...
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The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910
Just when it seems that vision in the 19th century has been examined in every possible light and pursued into the darkest, most shadowy corners, Chris Otter has come up with a new way of looking at...
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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
Theory, even to a writer 'fed up' with it, is relevant, as the lessons of humanism show, says Carolyn Lesjak
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Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness
While it sounds like a television drama starring Trevor Eve as a cold-case copper revisiting gruesome murders from the Seventies, "Speaking with the Dead" is, in fact, the locus classicus of an...
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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
Western meddling in foreign lands ... Moshe Behar wonders if it's worth a read by a certain Mr Obama
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Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film
The once-neglected topic of British cinema has undergone such a sustained re-evaluation over the last ten years or so that there remain few nooks and crannies that have not been brought into the...
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Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America
Despite the American automobile industry's catastrophic decline in popularity, profits and market share, there has been no shortage of scholarly analyses of its historical importance. If pioneering...
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Moreschi and the Voice of the Castrato
A discerning study of the legacy of the last of the papal castrati resonates with Martha Feldman
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Animal Experimentation: A Guide to the IssuesBy Vaughan Monamy, senior lecturer in environmental science and environmental ethics, Australian Catholic...
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Government raises funding to £7.8 billion
2009-10 grant letter reveals 9.8 per cent increase over previous year. John Gill reports
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Leeds Met fees set to rise after v-c resigns
Dissent over higher charges may have influenced Simon Lee's decision to go, writes Melanie Newman
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From where I sit - Pariah status for informal experts
He is a sprightly 77-year-old schoolteacher who has spent his life discovering ancient painted rock shelters in an area of central India called Narsinghgarh.Yet few outside the small town where he...
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Targett blames students
Statistics showing that Poppleton had come last in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey have been dismissed as "unreliable, invalid, partial, misleading and seriously out-of-date" by...