Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, by Tim Whitmarsh
Candida Moss on a work tracing the history of thinkers who saw no place for the deities
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The Restless Clock: AÂ History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick, by Jessica Riskin
Robyn Arianrhod on how Enlightenment android-builders and modern biologists shaped the sciences of life and artificial intelligence
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Do writers care about academic criticism?
Matthew Reisz talks to creative writers and artists about what it is like to be the subject of commentaries and theories
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Rich students ‘five times more likely to study abroad’
Analysis finds men and ethnic minorities under-represented in international cohort
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When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
Book of the week: In an extraordinary voice, a neurosurgeon wrestles with his looming untimely death, says Jennifer Rohn
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Workload survival guide for academics
Advice on how to cope with all the work and when to say no to opportunities
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The week in higher education – 18 February 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Student loans: confusion reigns on England’s HE spending
OECD planning to change measures of public spending on HE amid complex picture on student loans
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Laurie Taylor – 18 February 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Grant winners – 18 February 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Business schools: distracted drivers of some bad practices
Like Volkswagen, MBA programmes have fostered harms as well as benefits. They need to rehumanise management, says Douglas Board
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India’s passage might not be simple, but it can climb to elite tier
The country’s ambitious goals for its universities can’t be hit quickly or cheaply, says Philip Altbach, but they can be achieved