We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
Despite the bad press, journalists played an important role in the conflict, says Julius Ruiz
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Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
In Britain in 1914, the stern and imposing figure of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener pointed a finger at young men, telling them, peremptorily: "Your country needs YOU." In the US in 1917, Uncle Sam...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: blackwell.co.uk
1. Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom by Mardy Grothe. HarperCollins, £10.99. ISBN 97800072810082. Clinical Sports Medicine by Peter Brukner and Karim Khan. McGraw-Hill, £54.91. ISBN...
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Patronizing the Arts
The relationship between creatives and their backers can be fraught, discovers Sally Feldman
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Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age
As Brian Ladd's introduction tells us, autophobia is "an obscure psychiatric diagnosis of 'fear of oneself'". Ladd justifies his use of the term to indicate fear or hatred of cars on the basis that...
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Book of the week - Thinking Popular Culture
In the cultural jungle, one person fights the good fight, finds Fred Inglis
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The week in books
Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music by John Lucas, emeritus professor of English, Nottingham Trent University. Boydell Press, £25.00, ISBN 9781843834021"The Beecham story is not new, but so much...
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Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana
Joanna Lewis on the riches that cast a shadow over an African nation's once-bright future
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The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption
Daniel Herwitz asks some fascinating questions. What makes a star an icon? Why does the public create and consume iconic figures? Caught between transcendence and trauma, they lead a double existence...
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Stat-spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
Ever wondered what vampires and bad statistics have in common? According to Joel Best, they are both fiendishly difficult to kill. We live in a world where the media constantly bombard us with an...
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Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Michelene Wandor on writers' revealing accounts of both their muses and their demons
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Nanovision: Engineering the Future
A nanometre is a billionth of a metre. It is the size of a fullerene molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms. Chemists have long been able to manipulate large numbers of molecules on this scale, and...
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Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts
In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's narrator Ishmael declares: "Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can." Going to sea is a...
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Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms
David Ayers finds that creative influences migrate both ways in the literature of the Americas
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Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness
Did you know that many of the paintings by Francis Bacon, most notably Study for Crouching Nude (1952), were influenced by photographs of convulsing male hysterics from the Salpetriere hospital in...