Actual Consciousness, by Ted Honderich
Roberta Locatelli on an audacious venture to elucidate representations of thoughts and desires
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John Skelton: The Career of an Early Tudor Poet, by John Scattergood
David Salter on a comprehensive analysis of the diverse work of a ‘poet of contradictions’
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God and the Multiverse: Humanity’s Expanding View of the Cosmos, by Victor J. Stenger
Virginia Trimble on a book that aims to explain the universe and its contents in terms of natural processes
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Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time, by Garry Wills
A look at theatre in the Elizabethan court indulges in some fantasies of its own, says Willy Maley
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The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts, by Sarah Dry
Robyn Arianrhod on the complex and contradictory life of the greatest physicist of all time
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The Global Republic: America’s Inadvertent Rise to World Power, by Frank Ninkovich
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman on an intricate history of the role of America on the global stage
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Claire Fletcher-Flinn, Peter J. Smith, Eleonora Belfiore, R. C. Richardson and Uwe Schütte…
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The best bloc for a 21st-century education system?
Mike Cole ponders how to promote research culture and social democracy in Cambodia
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Maximise returns – go long
Universities know well the value of international students, but myopic politicians struggle to see past electoral expediency
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Q&A with Lord Puttnam
We speak to Lord Puttnam, the chair of Pearson College’s academic board
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USS reforms: income gap widens on redbrick v post-92 pensions
UCU warns that academics at older universities could be up to £21,000 a year worse off in retirement than those at newer institutions
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Poet joins professor in criticising University of Essex
Glyn Maxwell, whose departure follows Marina Warner’s exit, claims the importance of high-profile academics is ‘lost’ on Essex
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Liberal education: preparing students for life’s journey
With utilitarianism on the rise, we must reaffirm the value of the liberal arts, says Frank Furedi
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Interview: Hoarder or collector?
In his new book, Scott Herring aims to ‘depathologise’ hoarding. He talks to Matthew Reisz
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Graham Gibbs on teaching lecturers to teach
Could training schemes for teachers help to improve student learning? asks Graham Gibbs