Letter: Flak for all hacks (2)
Congratulations to David Palfreyman on sending me to the dictionary twice and causing me mentally to draw breath three times while reading one of his sentences. Oxford lives... Beverley Thompson...
Congratulations to David Palfreyman on sending me to the dictionary twice and causing me mentally to draw breath three times while reading one of his sentences. Oxford lives... Beverley Thompson...
As a member of a small theology department that has the misfortune of having to prepare for both the research assessment exercise and a subject review visit, my thoughts have been turning to the long...
Although I read Peter Atkins's review of Ian Barbour's When Science Meets Religion (Books, THES, December 8) with salacious pleasure, I could not help feeling that someone who was really so sure of...
Pollsters and journalists despair because they failed to predict the outcome of the United States presidential elections ("Red faces over White House forecast fiasco", THES, November 17). Perhaps...
Beverley Drumm (Letters, THES, December 8) made some excellent points. But I disagree on one issue. To imply that to enter a dictatorship on a research visa endorsed by a host government ministry is...
Do working mothers put in far more hours than men ("A crushing workload", Soapbox, THES, December 8)? How can you even ask that question? I read Susan Bassnett's article with a wry smile as my two...
As a woman on an academic contract who is nowhere near being a vice-chancellor (and doesn't aspire to be one), but who is also loaded with "S" (support activities), has a toddler, takes work home (to...
"If", The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , The Ballad of Reading Gaol , a Shakespeare sonnet - could you name your favourite poem? In the United States, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" tops the poll...
Tim Cornwell finds out how Lynne Cheney and her 'political potboiler' fit into MLA history The rightwing's favourite cultural hawk is back. Under president Ronald Reagan, Lynne Cheney carried the...

Malawian poet Jack Mapanje is writing his account of the three and a half years in prison that blighted a promising career. Chris Bunting met him in York When Jack Mapanje was arrested by the...
Breyten Breytenbach's prison narrative The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist provides an interesting response to life in prison. Breytenbach, one of South Africa's best-known Afrikaner poets,...
The world has been watching (and perhaps smirking) at the election problems of the nation sometimes considered the "leader of the free world". Much less media attention has focused on the roughly 4...
Richard Pevear explains why the first new translation into English in 40 years of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was necessary Why is there a need for a new translation of Anna Karenina ? The version by...
Portraying themselves as victims, men are reasserting their cultural dominance, says Sally Robinson There's a scene in David Fincher's film Fight Club where the narrator faces a Gucci underwear ad...
The issues involved in translation require and foster critical and associative thinking, heightened reading skills, and an increased interest in and understanding of other cultures. All too often,...