Joanna Williams loves her job: spending less time doing it won’t improve her well-being
If work is your passion, argues Joanna Williams, greater well-being doesn’t necessarily stem from spending more time at home
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Christopher Bigsby - Hard yardage
Why do US universities take sport so seriously?, asks Christopher Bigsby
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Letters
Guiding the clever to wisdom’s shoresI was fascinated by the quote from Tony Blair in 1999 promoting 50 per cent entry in UK higher education: “In today’s world there is no such thing as too clever....
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Liberation theology
Sarah Coakley is outspoken about theology’s relevance and determined not to allow it to wither in a dusty campus corner. She tells Matthew Reisz how it can illuminate contemporary issues such as...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Consumers left hungry for meaning
Consumerisation’s spread to all aspects of life and work leaves a hollow feeling, finds Cary Cooper
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Pragmatic encounters: seldom brief
Hilary Hinds praises an account of social shifts gleaned from small ads, smooching and soulmates
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Apocalypse cowed
Joanna Depledge is disturbed by advice to be passive in the face of human-induced apocalypse
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London Underground: A Cultural Geography, by David Ashford
A. W. Purdue on the evolution of the Tube system
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France and the Age of Revolution: Regimes Old and New from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte, by William Doyle
Robert Zaretsky on a study that shows how history defeats not just prediction, but also our predilection for theory
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On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth, by Toby Tyrrell
Jon Turney on the latest scientific findings regarding interactions between life and our planet that do not support the Gaia theory
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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59, by David Kynaston
Roger Morgan on a vivid social history of Britons seeking to modernise
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Hell hath no fury
Lucy Bolton hails a gritty group portrait of a 1950s gang of teenage avengers in all their naivety, anger and passion
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British population and university distribution compared
Despite the apparently inequitable clustering of universities in certain hot spots across the UK, the correlation between where people study and the distribution of the general population is...
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Laurie Taylor
When the digging stopped“A Eureka moment.” That was how our professor of archaeology, Mortimer Wheelbarrow, described the result of his latest dig at a site in the East Midlands area.In an article in...