First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a lesser work by a prolific English novelist, now better known for his plays: "It was the end of a wet...
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Mystery men of hard rock
Unknown Amazon
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My right vs. a future child's
David Pearce asks if we need ethical reforms to ensure sustainability. From an ecological standpoint, the history of economic and social development can be thought of as the exploitation of one form...
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Craving for hardship
The Other Enlightenment - Simone Weil
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Bangkok: the new Vienna
Global Sex - Travels in the Skin Trade
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Hard to let go of girlish fantasy
Men in Wonderland
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Heroines find way into shanties
In this well-written work, David Cordingly displays ingenuity in weaving together mermaids and prostitutes, women going to sea dressed as men, female pirates, captains' wives and female lighthouse...
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Hilarity and the invisible women
Moments of Truth
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China life through a courtesan's mirror
Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai
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Heroine who fought hypocrisy and raised the 'fallen'
Josephine Butler
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Laurie Taylor column
Competition between university departments is leading to an increase in "subject chauvinism" - article by Grenville Wall, THES , February 22. Item 12. Dr Quintock, I believe this is yours. Thank you...
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Letter: Very much alive
The claim that generativist linguistics is "dead in its stall" (Books, THES , February 15) is based on a misunderstanding. Generativists believe language has properties that should be construed...
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Letter: Beyond suffrage
Brian Harrison's quirky constitutionalist rewriting of women's suffrage history (Letters, THES , February 15) is on a par with his misconception of Sylvia Pankhurst's role. The campaign for her...
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Letter: Don't let Gats ruin aspirations 1
Olga Wojtas's report of fears that the Department of Trade and Industry is trying to pressure Universities UK to support the application of the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trade...
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Letter: Don't let Gats ruin aspirations 2
Stephen Phillips suggests that the United States enjoys a more favourable regime of tax relief on gifts to charity than Europe ("In the game of seeking out sponsors, institutions may be gambling...