Waugh-ha ha
Laurie Taylor in his review of Evocative Objects (Books, September 28) says that one of the jokes at Forest Hill Comprehensive School was the story of the English teacher who, unable to control his...
Laurie Taylor in his review of Evocative Objects (Books, September 28) says that one of the jokes at Forest Hill Comprehensive School was the story of the English teacher who, unable to control his...
From the choice of a child's name to the widespread difficulty in understanding the laws of physics, human beings are governed, Steven Pinker says, by innate and often fallacious conceptual...
Diaspora communities worldwide look back to, and sometimes frustrate peace plans in, the countries from which they have fled. How best, asks Hazel Smith, to make these far-flung peoples a force for...
While the conflict in Iraq grinds on, a parallel 'soft' war is being pursued by a host of new indigenous and Western-backed Arabic television, radio and internet services. Annabelle Sreberny says...
A Secular Age
Macachiavellian Intelligence
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a jazzy stream-of-consciousness riff on postwar America: "I first met Dean not long after my wife and...
The Female Thing
From Anger to Apathy
One to Nine
Joseph Conrad
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
Who are these academics who claim to work round the clock, asks Susan Bassnett. And if they do exist, why don't they get a life? There is a certain kind of infuriating academic you meet occasionally...
If you are passionate about your subject, know your market and don't mind hard work, writing a textbook could bring you a tidy profit as well as satisfaction in a job well done, advises Harriet Swain...
Name: Sarah Beattie-Smith Age : 22 Job: President of Edinburgh College of Art students union Salary: £11,400 Practical training/education: BA (Hons) Sculpture Working hours: Officially 10 to 5.30;...