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Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film
Davina Quinlivan considers the monster as a figure of loss and sadness as the BFI begins a season of ghoulish thrills
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Avril Goodwin, Stephen Halliday, Christina Hellmich, David Milne and R. C. Richardson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Way of Science: Finding Truth and Meaning in a Scientific Worldview, by Dennis R. Trumble
Andrew Briggs on an effort to cast down faith-based reasoning
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Take a Closer Look, by Daniel Arasse
K.E. Gover on a delightful guide to seeing art with new eyes
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Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability, by Emily Apter
Danielle Sands on a call for broader, more creative and politically engaged modes of thought
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Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, by Gordon Young
Sherry Lee Linkon on a ‘community of memory’ fighting for a place called home
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Nature’s Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West, by Monica Rico
Peter Messent on why upper-class men felt at home on the frontier
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A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia, by Madawi Al-Rasheed
Pernille Arenfeldt on a fine counterargument to reductionist claims about women and Islam
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Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?, by Anthony Giddens
Roger Morgan on a peer’s review of Brussels’ weaknesses
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Rigged results
The BUAV welcomes public discussion about animal experiments (“Animal research under the microscopeâ€, 17 October). However, the fundamental flaw in universities hosting the Big Animal Research Debate...
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Sheffield’s Furnace Park forges scholarly collaboration
Brownfield reclamation unites academics, artists and community
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Pro v-c cited his unwritten book in study
Major report on selective education used ‘inappropriate’ references
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Newtonian capitalism
Nicholas Till’s lament for the North Norfolk coastline and for pastoral sentiment in opera is well taken (“Elegy in a country churchyardâ€, 24 October). The lonely coast at Cley is ever more heavily...
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Private college hit by ‘restraining order’ and fine
Canada branch of London School of Business and Finance labelled an ‘unlicensed private career college’ and told to halt teaching