One art that defies the writer
The Classics of Music
The Classics of Music
Why Do People Hate America?
Beowulf - Beowulf
The Donald Richie Reader
Turtle Island
Belzoni's Travels
Elspeth Huxley
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a semi-autobiographical book in which the author's friends, including W. H. Auden, appear under...
Frank Kingdon Ward's Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges
Your diarist attributed to me the words of Ian Gibson (Diary, THES , July 5). What I said in the debate on the research assessment exercise at Westminster Hall was that it had not been proper for the...
I have visited Israel many times and have always felt a deep attachment to the country. But I am filled with anger and despair at recent events there and in the occupied territories. It is essential...
The David Irving trial was not only about Holocaust denial and the nature of historical research, but also about fudging the truth. It also examined in detail the vexed question of how the subtle...
The government buys places at UK universities cheap and then feels entitled to demand more for its money ("Lecturers told to get real-world job skills", THES , July 5). But if the government uses...
Mike Hill, head of the Careers Services Unit, like the government, equates training with education. Vocational courses should be partnerships between universities and employers. The university...
To read that working in a fast-food restaurant will be "valuable experience" for a student made me wonder if this was a news item left over from April 1. My experience of factory work was valuable...