What are you reading? – 13 April 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Far-Right in Politics in Europe, by Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg
Matthew Feldman on a timely history that roams over the Continent
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Marilyn McCord Adams, 1943-2017
First female Regius professor of divinity at the University of Oxford remembered
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Interview with Rowan Williams
The former Archbishop of Canterbury discusses religious leaders’ obligation to promote equality, the challenges of meeting controversial heads of state, and concerns about the growth of populism
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Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny, by Wladimir Velminski
Politics takes centre stage in a study of research on the edge of the paranormal, says Yvonne Howell
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A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome, by J. C. McKeown
An entertaining study covers everything from doctors to patients, diagnosis to treatment and sex to death, says Jane Draycott
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Theories of Everything, by Frank Close
Each scientific law is a layer of knowledge – with limits – and we’re still peeling, says Marcus Chown
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Right to remain in UK ‘jeopardised’ by researching abroad
US academic highlights risks for internationally mobile foreign scholars looking to settle in UK
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Universities can do more to support PhD students’ mental health
Supervisors should be trained to spot the first sign of a problem, says Chris Havergal
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UK public ‘wants overseas student numbers to stay same or rise’
UUK poll ahead of key Commons vote finds only 26 per cent see students ‘as immigrants’
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Universities urged to tackle PhD mental health crisis
Institutions told they have a ‘culture of excluding postgraduates’ in wake of damning study
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Will you really hit the stars in the great REF in the sky?
It's not just about papers. Running a university in Papua New Guinea has cast academic impact in a more exotic light for John Warren
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Is the decline of general knowledge a failure of educators?
A haberdasher who has never heard of a handkerchief is indicative of a whole world catching a cold, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto