Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America, by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder
Les Gofton enjoys an excellent study of how record sleeve artwork shaped consumerist values
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Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia, by Scott C. Beardsley
A defence of non-academic university leaders fails to make the grade, says Amanda H. Goodall
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Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Joseph E. Aoun
Manolis Mavrikis enjoys a reasoned appeal to universities to meet the teaching challenges posed by AI
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Campaign launched to lift ban on posthumous Nobel prize awards
Efforts by granddaughter of William Carlos Williams to persuade the Nobel Foundation to acknowledge the US poet could open door for other disciplines
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The week in higher education – 2 November 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Interview with Barbara Matthews
NTU pro v-c talks about finding out who you are at university, leading a stellar theatre company and why Nottingham should be European Capital of Culture
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Chris Wainwright, 1955-2017
Photographer and pro vice-chancellor of the University of the Arts London remembered
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Career advice: librarians ‘must defy stereotypes’ to climb ladder
Library staff should think in terms of the whole university if they want to advance, Sconul report says
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Oxford admissions tutor: only radical school reform will significantly widen access
Perhaps more could be done, but Oxbridge admissions data closely mirror applications, says Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Elite universities strive for inclusivity – but only up to a point
A growing sense of middle-class grievance in the UK would make a radical redistribution of top university places a very difficult political sell, says Sir Nigel Thrift
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How to negotiate your life’s doctoral turn
Identifying intellectual junctions, intersections and sites for negotiation can give your academic rite of passage the right of way, says Zachary Foster
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The Internationalists and Their Plan to Outlaw War, by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
Book of the week: Christopher Hill praises an engaging but limited history of the role of law in achieving peace
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Nicholas Dirks: life on the fault line
The former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley explains how he navigated protests from both the Left and Right, and threatening tweets from President Trump
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Are ‘edusceptics’ right to portray higher education as a big con?
A recent wave of commentators have been disparaging universities and painting all who work in them as complicit in a fraud. Philip Cowan examines their case
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What are you reading? – 2 November 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers