Review: Dallas Buyers Club
The tale of an unsaintly Aids sufferer’s rebellion sidesteps sentimentality and hints at hope, says Duncan Wu
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James Stevens Curl, Stephen Halliday, Michael Reiss, Peter J. Smith and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame, by David J. Blacker
Gerald Taylor Aiken concurs with a call to protect higher education as a universal and public good
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Will China Dominate the 21st Century?, by Jonathan Fenby
Jonathan Mirsky on a merciless dissection of a seemingly unstoppable country
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Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora Space and the Devolution of Literary Culture, by Lynne Pearce, Corinne Fowler and Robert Crawshaw
Claire Chambers on how the colonial legacy is reflected in Mancunian writers’ work
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Blockbusters: Why Big Hits – and Big Risks – are the Future of the Entertainment Business, by Anita Elberse
Mega-budget shows are not a guaranteed recipe for success, says Janet Wasko. It’s not that simple
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Country House Society: The Private Lives of England’s Upper Class after the First World War, by Pamela Horn
A. W. Purdue on the changing social lives of the aristocracy and gentry between the wars
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The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century, by Angela Stent
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on the give and take between the two superpowers since the Soviet collapse
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UCL seeks new Fielden professor
French department head explains what the faculty is looking for. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Campus close-up: University of Roehampton
Expansion, optimism and the virtues of the US liberal-arts model are watchwords for vice-chancellor Paul O’Prey
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Why a whole day’s pay for a two-hour strike?
We are writing to ask Queen Mary University of London to withdraw its threat to deduct a whole day’s pay for strike action of two hours, which, if implemented, we believe would be unlawful, unjust...
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LSE moves towards lifting class size limit
Fierce student opposition looks unlikely to block move to balance larger classes with more contact with faculty
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Not the only (Plos) One
The problem that Jamie Timmons flags (“Concern over tacit conflicts of interest in peer reviews”, 30 January) is one that all journals battle with, not just Plos One. All reputable journals have...
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MPs want more to be done to help women in science
Chair of Commons committee wants universities to ‘pull their socks up’ and tackle gender inequality
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For-profit colleges claim more public fee loan cash than LSE
SLC data show two private institutions received more than the globally renowned London School of Economics and Soas