Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jon Turney salutes an exhaustive study of the rise and (relative) fall of a brilliant, bewildering mind
Jon Turney salutes an exhaustive study of the rise and (relative) fall of a brilliant, bewildering mind
Maintaining authority, professional distance and ‘authenticity’ is hard among people who knew you pre-academia, reflects Brad Evans
Classics-loving British transplant to the Ivy League describes the joy of translating ancient texts just for the gift of the intellectual struggle
The Inside Out festival aims to fling open the doors of the academy and allow scholars’ work to roam free in London and engage with its many publics, writes Matthew Reisz
Farah Karim-Cooper – one of the UK’s few ethnic minority Shakespeare professors – reflects on being an outsider in a discipline not known for its non-white faces and ponders how diversity can be...
Scholars and senior sector figures reveal their favourites – read for work, for pleasure, or both – of the titles published this year
The India-born, CUNY-based expert on light-matter interaction discusses his work to help school students share his sense of excitement
Jules Pretty explores the oceans that haunt our imaginations
Young people face one of the most challenging periods for coming of age in history. Academics should do all they can to help them, says Harvey Graff
When her broadcasting career took off in her mid-fifties, Mary Beard became one of Britain’s best-known and most-discussed academics. Jack Grove speaks to the retiring Cambridge classicist about her...
The Olmecs
A study of immigration removal centres reveals their dehumanising effect, says Lucy Williams
Outcry over cancellation of planned post for former Human Rights Watch director
Scholars and senior sector figures reveal their favourite titles – read for work, for pleasure or both – published this year
Prisoners rarely get tertiary lessons, let alone have undergraduates study alongside them, but the results can be profound. Helen Lock reports