Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History, by Susanna Lee
Clive Bloom finds the rap sheet on an iconic cultural figure frustratingly incomplete
Clive Bloom finds the rap sheet on an iconic cultural figure frustratingly incomplete
Bryan Cheyette considers an intriguing account of the stories we tell ourselves about slavery
Adela Bradley, a glamorous, more saucy version of Miss Marple, is brought vividly to life, says Gary Day
The BBC's new Sherlock Holmes is great fun, says Gary Day, but the man himself remains an enigma
Sarah Lund is in danger of being upstaged by her sweaters in the hit series The Killing, says Gary Day
The harsh realities of the drug business on a Hackney estate give Gary Day food for thought
Gary Day sees parallels between the 19th-century novel and anthropomorphic tales of rare animals
Australia’s teaching and research relationships with China are becoming increasingly overshadowed by rising geopolitical tensions. But the long, deep personal links between academics in the two...
Computers have not liberated us, Gary Day learns, but rather locked us in a corporate capitalist world
Gary Day is mesmerised by the bedridden life of a man mountain who courts global media attention
Gary Day finds absurdity in two programmes on universities - and only one is on a fictional campus
Gary Day enjoys a feast of detective fiction over Christmas, made all too poignant by real events
Lincoln Allison makes the case for the revival of the old-style academic eccentric
From Walter White to Dexter Morgan, what lies behind our fascination with imperfect heroes? asks Murray Smith
Ever since it emerged from English departments in the 1970s, media studies has been routinely dismissed as the archetypal ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree. But in an era of fake news and media hegemony, has...