Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories, by Angus Fletcher
Deborah D. Rogers is unconvinced by an ambitious attempt to apply the insights of neuroscience to centuries of literature
Deborah D. Rogers is unconvinced by an ambitious attempt to apply the insights of neuroscience to centuries of literature
Deborah D. Rogers learns how the privileged make college admissions processes work in their favour
Our regular look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Deborah Rogers on a testament to literature’s power to sustain life in the face of the indignities of disease and age
A one-sided account of a conflict between an eminent professor and an Oscar-winning film-maker is both upbeat and challenging, finds Howard Segal
This attempt to dissipate our anxiety reads like an interesting collection of essays rather than a coherent argument, writes Deborah D. Rogers
Abraham Lincoln, a history of the Roman Empire and an EU flag feature in scholars’ Trump Day plans
Howard Segal on an optimistic visionary who never quite achieved the utopian communities he envisioned
US scholars reveal how they will spend the night as arguably the most divisive election battle in recent history nears its conclusion
In the US, the cost of paying for expensive commencement speeches is diverting funds from where they’re most needed, says Howard Segal
There have been radically different responses to Massachusetts’ and Maine’s attempts to bring in students from further afield, explains Howard Segal
Howard Segal admires the travelogue of a self-confessed ‘professional disaster tourist’ covering a variety of global wastelands
Utopianism is in a bad way. Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler’s Germany and Pol Pot’s Kampuchea are regularly disinterred as terrifying examples of humanity’s attempts to actualise ideal societies, with...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers