Jonathan Freedman's outstanding previous book revealed how American Jews entered the cultural mainstream in the 1950s and 1960s and, in so doing, began to transform what had previously marginalised...
Ezra Pound's fascination with Chinese literature, history and culture spanned pretty much his whole poetic career. Even before late 1913 when he received - in the papers of the late Ernest Fenollosa...
Benjamin Ziemann on Nazi lust for Lebensraum
Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652-1979 by William Lamont, emeritus professor of history, University of Sussex. Ashgate, £55.00, ISBN 9780754655329"I don't think that verticality can...
Geoffrey Alderman regrets the omissions in an insiders' tale of the Adult Learning Inspectorate
Eloquence does not kill people," Denis Donoghue announces in the opening pages of this paradoxically meditative polemic, which will be of particular interest to those interested in formalist...
How on earth does Zygmunt Bauman do it? He published 15 or 16 books in Poland before he was chucked out in an anti-Semitic purge soon after the brief hopes of 1968. Since 1971, a book a year, and now...
1. Social Work Practice by Veronica Coulshed and Joan Orme Macmillan, £17.99 ISBN 97814039215502. Social Work Practice: Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review by Jonathan Parker and Greta...
While Tony Mann risks buying ice-cream that might melt, others puzzle over fridge insurance and health
The West," wrote Henry Kissinger in 1965, "requires nothing so much as men able to create their own reality." Within a decade, the Harvard academic would have done just that, recasting himself as the...
As we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the events of 1968, it is perhaps only appropriate that a new book has come out on the revolutionary cinema of that decade. As the author, Geoffrey Nowell-...
ECONOMICS- When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save ThemBy Teresa Ghilarducci, Schwartz chair in economic policy and director of SCEPA, New School for Social Research....
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