Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, by Duncan White
Book of the week: Andrew Palmer is impressed by a bold survey of literature on both sides of the Iron Curtain
Book of the week: Andrew Palmer is impressed by a bold survey of literature on both sides of the Iron Curtain
Claims that university education is vital for healthy societies are unconvincing and potentially counterproductive. Better to try to expand the tribe that appreciate the humanities’ relative value,...
Sexual harassment of female lecturers by their students is one of the less discussed aspects of the interplay between gender and power in academia. Kate Cantrell tells her story
As the winter solstice looms in the northern hemisphere, five academics reflect on the light and dark of the dead season
To spare doctoral candidates protracted and unproductive efforts, Tim Marler and Dean Young suggest a pragmatic route to successful completion, while, below, Julian Kirchherr advocates a quick-and-...
Economist Bryan Caplan considers tangible benefits, inconvenient truths and wonders whether Latin and poetry are worth the effort when ‘Kardashian’ trumps ‘Shakespeare’ in Google search results
As the first anniversary of the singer-songwriter’s death passes, his childhood friend Kenneth Asch reflects on the place of both the institution and the musician in Quebec’s fractured cultural mosaic
Book of the week: Josh Cohen’s ruminations on slobbishness and lethargy will resonate with many readers
At 1967’s Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation, radicals preached Black Power, existential psychiatry, free universities and more. Martin Levy reports on an event that was as much a happening as...
What should have been a straightforward application for leave to remain in the UK turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare for University of St Andrews’ lecturer Emily Michelson, whose research trip to...
Book of the week: Emily Michelson learns that the home and the items in it were the heart of Renaissance religion
Book of the week: Dream homes, women on the edge, murder – we’ve been here before, says Sharon Wheeler
Buildings and statues dedicated to people whose views clash with modern values can cause difficulties, but is tearing down history the answer?
The author and professor of education and social justice discusses white privilege, Leonard Cohen, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
BRICS and MINTs, move over for the TACTICS – Thailand, Argentina, Chile, Turkey, Iran, Colombia and Serbia. Ellie Bothwell on a group that could grow into star players in global higher education