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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is froma novel that starts in confusion: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its...
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The spice of life in a new land
Asians in Britain
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The King of Number 10?
War Diaries 1939-1945 - Churchill's Cold War - Churchill
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High-brow diet that tends to repeat
The Veil of Order
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Old flame kindles warmth and revisits dismal ground
The Philip Larkin I Knew
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To: All Members of Academic Staff Dear Colleagues Yes, it is Christmas once more. But as we look forward to the festive pleasures of yuletide we should not...
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Leader: Universities can't widen access on willingness alone
Universities, or at least some of them, have a lot to answer for in the complacent way they addressed the social composition of the student population in the latter years of the 20th century. As far...
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Leader: What good is a boom if languages go bust?
The focus of the government's languages strategy is, rightly, on schools. But the impact will be felt in higher education before long, and it is hard to imagine it being positive. By encouraging...
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Drive-thru education serves McNuggets of information
The audit system is turning UK higher education into a vast shopping mall, American sociology professor George Ritzer tells Walter Ellis Small, balding and be-jumpered, George Ritzer looks more like...
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Citizens, you are what you buy
Cultural studies is fighting for its survival in a harsh research marketplace, says Richard Maxwell, while Mica Nava argues that shopping is all part of politics Cultural studies is one of the fields...
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Consumption's potent political purchase
Cultural studies is fighting for its survival in a harsh research marketplace, says Richard Maxwell, while Mica Nava argues that shopping is all part of politics Until the late 1980s, consumption was...
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A fanfare of strumpets for a magical mystery whore
Nigel Barley invites you to enter the Whore of Babylon Experience, a fictional museum tour. Patchouli squirts, orgasmic commentary and multiple virgins await, not to mention your fellow visitors -...
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MLA: Two tribes united by single goal
Literature and anthropology scholars do not always see eye to eye but, writes Stephen Phillips, in thinking about ‘culture’, they share a joint project For James Buzard, associate literature...
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MLA: Sex rescues sad character from clutches of cariacture
Why, asks Jonathan Dollimore, is all theory so easily dismissed as irrelevant because of one or two bad ones? In Maggie Gee’s latest novel, The White Family , there’s a sad character writing a book...