MLA: the ultimate in fantasy novels
The internet has created a new literary genre in Japan but some of its features have much in common with the classics. Toru Kiuchi examines a medium where anything goes When the 18th-century English...
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MLA: criminals, perverts and Snoopy
The MLA's conference has been called a 'passion of solemnity', but with subjects ranging from Greek musicals to jailed writers, you are bound to find something to your taste, says Tim Cornwell...
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TV & radio guide - Friday
In Search of the Black Madonna (11.00 am R4). Bonnie Greer wonders about the power of "Black Madonna" icons in Europe from medieval times on. First of two programmes. Culture Fix (11.30 am BBC...
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Comrades try to get Prudence to wear more red
Socialism has had setbacks in the 25 years since young leftwinger Gordon Brown edited The Red Paper on Scotland . Bob Tait joined a gathering to discuss the way forward. It was, on the face of it, an...
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I'd like one doner kebab and a PhD to takeaway
You can call a room above a kebab shop a university and make millions, but such degree mills harm UK higher education, says Matthew Chapman. It is a little known fact that Green Lanes in a quiet...
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Higher Channels
Metamorpheus (Sunday 8.15 BBC2) is a rarity that’s welcome for more than one reason. Firstly, it’s concerned with Greek mythology, a subject that doesn’t surface much on television these days outside...
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Sons of soil left to wither on the vine
Agriculture in Britain has sunk to a nadir last seen during the Great Depression. Farmers were once the bedrock of British society and a powerful voice in the land, but who now cares what becomes of...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Researchers at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University have reported that they have altered the flow of electricity through tiny carbon nanotubes by...
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Latest international news
New York institute gets $130m gift An anonymous donor has given $130 million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, to build a biotechnology research building and an electronic media...
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Latest UK news
Clinton visits Warwick Bill Clinton, president of the United States, visits the University of Warwick today to deliver a speech on globalisation. The university has had to provide parking space for...
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PhD Studentship Award
Deadline: 08/02/2001
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Research Fellowships
Deadline: 04/03/2002
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Daily TV & radio guide - Thursday
Routes of English (9.00 am R4). London Jamaican. Melvyn Bragg consults Linton Kwesi Johnson and people on the streets of Brixton. » Routes of English Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Swedes under...
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Latest international news
Sylvan Learning buys Chilean stake Sylvan Learning Systems Inc, which in 1999 bought a controlling interest in the European University of Madrid, will pay $21 million for 60 per cent of a Chilean...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Unwanted Christmas gifts are economically inefficient. John Kay examines US academic Joel Waldford's super-rational view of Christmas. THE GUARDIAN Thirty-six Scottish pupils may...