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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale, by Marina Warner
A potent study revisits familiar territory and gives new insights into tales for children, finds Shahidha Bari
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Berkeley’s Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us?, by John Campbell and Quassim Cassam
Jane O’Grady on a debate between two philosophers, who offer elegant ‘solutions’
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The Meaning of Human Existence, by Edward O. Wilson
The folksy charm of these essays threatens to detract from the main argument, says Simon Underdown
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Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International, by Frances Stracey
Alex Danchev considers a history of a small but influential group of cultural ‘hijackers’
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Little Vast Rooms of Undoing: Exploring Identity and Embodiment through Public Toilet Spaces, by Dara Blumenthal
An examination of our bathroom habits is a little…constipated, finds Peter J. Smith
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Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age, by Robert Pogue Harrison
Fred Inglis salutes a big-hearted exploration of society’s obsession with youthfulness
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4 December 2014
Weathering the storm - What does turmoil at Plymouth mean for the future of university governance?
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Competition tests researchers’ ethics, council finds
Work by Nuffield Council on Bioethics reveals pressure on researchers to compromise on integrity and mistrust of the REF
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Q&A with Catherine Stihler
We speak to only the second woman to have held the post of rector of the University of St Andrews
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Where all the stage is a world for scholars to explore
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe offers researchers insights into how Jacobean plays were received
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Arts courses face shutdown at Falmouth University
Contemporary crafts, theatre studies and a digital media programme are set to be axed
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Thomas Docherty on academic freedom
Managerial fundamentalism has taken hold in universities, with scholars viewed as resources that must be controlled, argues the Warwick scholar
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Singapore is 'Asia lite' for Western universities
But Western institutions in the city state may need to relax ‘normative’ views of free enquiry, Nanyang Technological University’s head tells John Morgan
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THE podcast: BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2015 results
Download the podcastThe results of the second annual Times Higher Education BRICS and Emerging Economies Rankings are out now.In this podcast, rankings editor Phil Baty discusses the results and some...