Hegel and the chicken suit
John Lippitt on a Lacanian analysis of comedy that trips up on a few Real and Symbolic banana skins
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Poems of John Milton
He was an organist and a republican. He was so good-looking his fellow students at Cambridge called him "the Lady of Christ's" and he gained such expertise at Latin that Cromwell made him Secretary...
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Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age
The moon in question here is not the natural celestial object that has always been a feature of the night sky since the first time anyone took the trouble to look upwards.No, the subject of Keep...
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The lure of facts and artefacts
Douglas Millard on the clocks, maps, gears and valves that sparked academics' love of science
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The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Following its devastating defeat in the Seven Years' War, France wanted to re-establish its American empire. What it needed was a new and better New France. The Duc de Choiseul settled on Kourou in...
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Her Husband Was a Woman: Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
I never thought I'd say this, but this book won me over as a fan of News of the World. By opening up six decades' worth of representations of women's cross-dressing to be found in the pages of the...
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When the future was Orange
A juicy account of England's links with Holland is missing a few segments, Anthony Milton discovers
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History Lesson: A Race Odyssey
Mary Lefkowitz's History Lesson ostensibly concerns itself with academic freedom of speech, relativism and hate speech but serves as a fascinating example of the ways in which race is played out in...
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Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture
I want to love this book. Really, I do. I have been pacing around my office listening to Marlene Dietrich and Amy Winehouse and wondering what to write that is generous to the project of Geek Chic,...
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The book of the week: The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Fantastical Journey around Your Head
Chris McManus on our spitting image
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The week in books
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III 1949-1955 edited by Edward Mendelson, professor of English and comparative literature and Lionel Trilling professor in the humanities, Columbia...
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Published this week
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century...
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Cash flows when academic passion is shared, says philanthropy tsar
Billion-dollar fundraiser counters the 'myth' that Britain lacks a tradition of giving. John Gill reports
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QCs say bid to mull morality of Israeli links breaches law
UCU cautioned on debating issue by legal counsel for anti-boycott group. Melanie Newman reports
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Pro-Israel academic barred from union forum
A leading campaigner against an academic boycott of Israel has been barred from a University and College Union online forum, prompting claims that debate on the issue is being suppressed.David Hirsh...