Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds, by Joseph P. Laycock
Ashley M. L. Brown discovers that imagination is often perceived as the greatest threat of all
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The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967, by Jeffrey Gurock
A counterfactual imagining of a fateful meeting in Munich raises some interesting possibilities, says Hasia R. Diner, but is it history?
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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, by David Graeber
Superheroes enliven a study of the history of red tape and how it shapes our lives, says Fred Inglis
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The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is?, by Nick Lane
Ravinder Kanda on a convincing hypothesis written in a witty style
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Radium and the Secret of Life, by Luis A. Campos
Peter Wothers on a thoroughly researched examination of the connections between two different kinds of science
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The brain trust, promoted to high office
Scholars imagine a government formed of academics
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Sir David Bell, Stephen Halliday, Richard Joyner, Peter J. Smith and Paul White...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Jennifer and Damien Markey will take their case to tribunal
The couple sacked over alleged leaks had their appeal thrown out by the University of Bolton last week
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A Fuller Life: The Story of a True American Maverick
His daughter’s documentary shows why Samuel Fuller’s brash movies made him a ‘poet of the American idiom’ and a cult hero in France
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Sector stands by for battles over cuts, fees and Europe
Universities’ lobbying of the new Conservative government will focus on funding and continuing EU membership
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Staff spending: subject by subject
The cost of academic staff in medicine, dentistry and health departments is more than double that of some other disciplines
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Engagement is bigger thrill than exit poll, academic says
The political scientist with the closest election prediction says the night was an intellectually challenging ‘white-knuckle ride’
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Ministers’ network effect set to cheer sector
V-cs likely to welcome well-connected Jo Johnson as counter to home secretary and Sajid Javid as one with the ear of the Treasury
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The storm in the aftermath
How will universities fare during the Tories’ defining second term – during which ‘Cameronism’ may, at last, fully reveal itself?
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How to redress the gender imbalance
Amanda Goodall and Margit Osterloh explore the causes of and solutions to the dearth of women at the top of UK academia