Get to the point: John Kaag’s guide to academic meetings
Meetings are an inescapable annoyance for most academics, but there are ways to make them more tolerable, says John Kaag
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Alan Ryan - Wage differentials
Alan Ryan ponders the huge variation in US university heads’ remuneration
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Letters
REF noose round neck of academic freedomOver the summer, my department asked me to prepare a research excellence framework impact statement based on work I had done six years ago (“Swansea’s REF plan...
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Raising the bars
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education’s reach and quality? Chris Parr investigates
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Bleak campus novel revival
John Williams’ novel about the careworn life of an obscure US academic sank swiftly from view upon publication in 1965, Christopher Bigsby writes. But half a century later, Stoner’s moving paean to...
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Glittering tragicomedy
Jonathan Thacker hopes that three comedia nueva plays - combining comedy and tragedy - will herald a revival of a lesser-known art form
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Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology and Geology of the Underworld, by Salomon Kroonenberg
Alison Stokes enjoys a tour of the physical and metaphorical lands of fire and brimstone
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July 1914: Countdown to War, by Sean McMeekin
A startling exercise in revisionism leads A. W. Purdue to ponder which nation was responsible for launching the great conflict
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Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project, by Michael Hauskeller
Andy Miah on the pros and cons of humanity 2.0
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Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror, by Nechama Tec
Rachel L. Einwohner on those who stood against the Holocaust
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Hard to think straight with the wolf at the door
People tend to lose the plot when there’s not enough to go around, Victoria Bateman discovers
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Stellar mother
Margaret Weitekamp applauds a filial tribute to a woman who helped get the US off the ground
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Unjust arm of the law
Vicky Conway hails powerful research that lays bare the corrosive effect of unchecked power
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God not dead on campus
Campus is not the secular space imagined by die-hard antagonists, Gerald Pillay observes