Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
When it comes to the value of monetary transactions, context is key, Natalie Gold writes
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Christmas in Nineteenth-century England
A.W. Purdue welcomes a spirited addition to the search for the source of our nostalgic Yuletide
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The Poetry Lesson
It's hard to know who the intended audience for this book is, partly because it's hard to know what kind of book this is. The latter ambiguity is certainly part of the point; indeed, The Poetry...
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How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederström
Is death the possibility of impossibility, or the impossibility of possibility? This is the sort of question that Simon Critchley tussles with in this ostentatiously erudite book. It's about his life...
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The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power
Cary L. Cooper recommends a commanding approach that inspires people to want to do things
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Monet and His Muse: Camille Monet in the Artist's Life
The current Monet-fest in Paris allows the public an opportunity to view more than 170 paintings and 20 drawings by the artist at the Grand Palais, as well as the retrospective Collection Intime at...
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Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language
Judith Allen's little book - only 117 pages of text - has a wide reach. It documents the corruption of political discourse in Virginia Woolf's time and ours, reflects on "the essayistic" as an...
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Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
Steven Yearley finds that cost-benefit analysis is of limited use when it comes to saving the planet
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Popular Culture and Working-Class Taste in Britain, 1930-39: A Round of Cheap Diversions?
There has long been a struggle between the soul of strong intelligences with decent feelings and the deathly conventions and leaden diction of required form in doctoral dissertations. Robert James is...
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Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milošević
The 1980s and 1990s brought exciting but often alarming change on the political front in Europe. Who could fail to have noticed? The demise of communism in Eastern Europe and the resurgence of...
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By the people, for the people
Reality TV is the consequence of liberalisation, a mix of the idiotic and the sublime. Clive Bloom surfs the multichannel-verse in search of entertainment
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Diary
LondonShadow CatchersPhotography is usually thought to require a camera to fix fleeting lighting effects on a flat surface. Yet it is equally possible to create images directly on photographic paper...
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The Pick - Alarming vision
Current DisturbanceThis is TomorrowWhitechapel Gallery, LondonThe Anglo-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum's Current Disturbance is an exceptionally disconcerting installation. It consists of a tight...
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A personal message from the vice-chancellor
Dear All,Last year was another year of achievement for Poppleton University.We retained our existing position in all but four of the leading university league tables and learned that our policy of...
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In agony? Don't fret: Uncle Felipe offers a shoulder to cry on
Felipe Fernández-Armesto's words of advice to unpopular or indecisive presidents and ministers who doubt their own policies