New and noteworthy – 14 January 2016
From Soviet tanks on the streets of Hungary to the 30th birthday of a founding text of queer studies: academic books worth adding to your reading list

From Soviet tanks on the streets of Hungary to the 30th birthday of a founding text of queer studies: academic books worth adding to your reading list

Joanna Williams on a controversial academic’s interpretation of where the boundaries lie

Scholarship, not ideology, drives this welcome effort to determine what is historical and what is not in the depiction of God, says Robert A. Segal

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Book of the week: Tim Hall on post-Soviet criminal clans, diverse and complex groups to whom lawlessness is anathema

Gordon Brown’s former right-hand man talks to John Morgan about his return to Harvard, Labour’s higher education ‘failure’ and a political comeback

Does the UK’s Prevent strategy go too far in its demands on institutions? A group of experts share their perspectives

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Who loses out when a scholar fails to acknowledge earlier related work? Ron Iphofen on the evergreen virtues of desk research