Progress on women in STEM is starting to unravel
Thirty years on from the start of the push to get more girls into science, the sense of urgency and commitment is waning, says Karen Russ
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German rector in ‘sabotaged car crash’ after free speech fracas
Magdeburg university head reveals scale of threats he received after controversy over right-wing AfD speakers
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A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day, by Alain Corbin
Joe Moran enters another dimension, one marked by the absence of sound. Next stop, the quiet zone
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Life with Lacan, by Catherine Millot
A lyrical memoir of a writer and psychoanalyst’s romantic and intellectual relationship with Lacan shows that psychoanalysis is very much the art of the enigmatic vignette, says Benjamin Poore
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What are you reading? – 26 April 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Subversion is at the heart of the academy
Universities cannot become Gardens of Eden without losing their key purpose, writes Hanna Holborn Gray
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Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation, by The Multigraph Collective
Abigail Williams enjoys this demonstration of the many ways in which publications make meaning
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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, by Michael Benson
Nathan Abrams admires an impressively researched, behind-the-scenes look at a science fiction classic
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New and noteworthy – 26 April 2018
Muddled brains and mortality; angry white men; the illustrated Ada Lovelace; and going without God
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Why has research in the EU13 countries not caught up with the west?
Universities in the former East Germany are now on a par with those of western Europe while others in the former Soviet bloc still lag. David Matthews visits Poland to explore why
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The week in higher education – 26 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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In a populist era, Europe’s universities are progressive strongholds
Higher education institutions are vital not just to research and economic growth but also to ensuring the health of liberal democracy on the continent
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Ministers rack up ideological own goals
Two recent news stories show just how far the government is prepared to go in sacrificing the international good standing of UK higher education on the altar of neoliberal market ideology. Even after...