Book of the week: On Art and War and Terror
An interdisciplinary tour of conflict in all its shades and guises grips Robert Eaglestone
An interdisciplinary tour of conflict in all its shades and guises grips Robert Eaglestone
Philip Smallwood says this great philosopher's story is long overdue
Are you obsessed with a 'baggy monster' or has a photocopied pamphlet sparked your passion for a whole new area of research? To kick off our new weekly series, leading scholars explain which books...
Tom Steele welcomes a painstakingly researched account of the renowned cultural critic’s legacy
Fred Inglis applauds a polemic on higher education's purpose and the perils it faces
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the habit of naming everything, from university libraries to landings, after people
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
As we go to press, we learn with deep regret of the institutional confinement of Professor F.R. Beavis, Head of our Department of English and Related Studies.It appears that this most unfortunate...
Confident protocols of cultural judgement have gone. Today, amid the competing voices of 'relativism', 'essentialism' and the hectic production of culture and opinion, 'our own response' to the arts...
Michael Baxandall, widely considered one of the finest postwar art historians, died on 12 August at the age of 74. He was born in Cardiff on 18 August 1933 into a family steeped in the world of...
The Unknown Matisse
The academy has long been a haven for obsessives, but now its emphasis on teamwork would ill suit socially inept geniuses such as Paul Dirac, writes Matthew Reisz
F.R. Leavis - F.R. Leavis
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
How do you begin to find what you want on the Net? Delia Venables provides some starting points. What will I find on the Internet of interest to me? This is a difficult question to answer, since...