Madmen and monster-makers
From Faust to Strangelove
From Faust to Strangelove
Gehennical Fire
Robert Giddings on James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson . Although born a Victorian, my father was a child of the 18th century. He was a Bathonian, and loved the city where he worked as a...
Towards the end of the last academic term two first-year students asked me whether I would look over some assignments that they had just completed. They were obviously pleased with their work and yet...
John Gray
Researching Children's Literature - Children's Literature
UN peacekeepers may be simply delaying the inevitable but they could do much more with the right support from senior planners, James Smith believes. Last September, I interviewed Canadian...
Haldane's Daedalus Revisited
As we head for the "knowledge society" of the 21st century, British universities seem only half awake, argues Sir Geoffrey Holland. The National Advisory Council on Education and Training Targets is...
Bharati Mukherjee tells Ronald Warwick about her transformation from high-caste Indian into American writer. I met Bharati Mukherjee in Holland where she was launching the Dutch translation of her...
Cyril Burt
The O.J. Simpson trial: judicial proceeding or popular entertainment? Wendy Lesser on the cameras in the courtroom. It would be either foolish or disingenuous to suggest that fascination with the...
The Goals of Macroeconomic Policy
The German Economy - Money and Magic
The Republic of Letters