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...
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...
Michelene Wandor on writers' revealing accounts of both their muses and their demons
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...
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...
David Ayers finds that creative influences migrate both ways in the literature of the Americas
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...
When this book went to the publisher a few months ago, it had disturbing implications for Europeans dependent on gas for heating and Americans dependent on gas for running a car. The author, a...
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Art, Sex and Eugenics: Corpus DelectiEdited by Fae Brauer, research professor in visual theory, University of East London, and Anthea Callen, professor of art...
University Campus Suffolk, a unique collaboration between the universities of East Anglia and Essex, first welcomed students in August 2007. It recently opened a dedicated teaching building, designed...
Universities have warned that their finances will be tight during the credit crunch after the Government called on them to direct a £120 million VAT "windfall" towards helping workers who lose their...
When the creation of a university for 5,000 students makes headlines in an area of the world where 90 per cent of the billion-strong population do not have access to higher education, cynics must...
Final votes are now being cast in the election for the new President of Universities UK. Here are the mission statements from all three candidates'I'm your man,' says Uttoxeter's Lumpkin"I believe it...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto takes a farewell look from Tufts' hilltop campus
University-led institutes involving employers and councils can give vocational education the status it deserves, says Ron Dearing