Mine's the tomato soup with Asian spice, easy on the Mexican bits
Who Are We?
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novel filmed with Arthur C. Clarke in a supporting role: "The village was called Beddagama, which...
The Indo-Aryan Languages
A History of Roget's Thesaurus
Blooming English
Politeness
New-Dialect Formation
The Invention of Cuneiform
Malicious Cryptography
The Government Machine
The Robot's Rebellion
Growing up with Lucy
A Hacker Manifesto
People who Live in the Dark
Should those individuals who have accepted chairs of research assessment exercise boards ("Big 15 to tackle RAE gamesters", October 1) not reconsider their positions? Neither they, nor those...