No winners when all Yanks get prizes
A History of American Literature
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Smalls that stay in shape
The Cambridge History of Western Textiles
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Love spoke its name in chorus
Homosexuality and Civilization - London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a first novel by a thriller writer: "They came through on the hot line at about half past two in the...
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French theory with polish
The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir
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A feminist front for fighting back
Homebreakers to Jailbreakers
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L'eau, woe and warmongering
Identity, Conflict and Cooperation in International River Systems - Water for Life
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Beastly memories haunt the landscape
The Retreat of the Elephants
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Green core of the Big Apple
Central Park
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Rookies risk fall at RAE hurdle
Your article, "NZ RAE batters rookies' morale" (August ) highlights a problem that the planners of the next research assessment exercise should note. Documents for the RAE in 2008 suggest that new...
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Fuzzy logic
"Who is Smithers to call us fuzzy?" (Letters, August ). He is a chartered psychologist. In my remarks to The Times Higher (August 20), I was reflecting my own disappointment at psychology's lack of...
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Image pulped
The shameful book burning at London Metropolitan University will further damage its image ("Book pulped at London Met", August ). Ex vice-chancellor Roderick Floud should have sorted out any problems...
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Testing question
Richard Lynn writes that our exam board has "apparently reinvented the intelligence test" (Letters, August ). We have done no such thing, as he would understand if he visited either of our thinking...
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Change of address?
Last week's article on house costs ("House prices leave city dwellers out in the cold", August ) claims that "staff at St Andrews University enjoy the best prospects for property - the average salary...