Great maths, not masters
I am writing in response to Brian Sewell’s “Every picture tells a history” (23 May). I am well qualified to do so as I am a 58-year-old professor of electronic engineering who has just completed a...
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R.C. Richardson, Nigel Rodenhurst, David Revill, Paul Greatrix and John R. Grodzinski...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
Robert J. Mayhew lifts off with a true balloon enthusiast
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The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson
Nithikul Nimkulrat discusses an ‘indispensable means of working’
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Liberty and Security by Conor Gearty
Amanda Cahill-Ripley on a radical critique of counter-terrorism
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China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower by Linda Yueh
Yongjin Zhang on the riddle at the heart of an Eastern paradox
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Roman Palmyra: Identity, Community, and State Formation by Andrew M. Smith II
Judith Weingarten on an island emporium in the midst of a sea of sand
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The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad
Stefan Andreasson on an engaging but unbalanced view of a vital subject
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Wealthy foundations: UK’s engineering heavyweights
The University of Sheffield has nudged the University of Cambridge into third place in a list of the UK institutions earning the most research income from engineering, Higher Education Statistics...
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Howard Davies on French plans that could cost UK dear
Howard Davies and Maria Zhivitskaya say critics of a new law allowing foreign-language instruction are fighting lost Proustian battles
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Gove, the enemy of promise
The education secretary’s attacks on the academy are a smokescreen for the damage caused by his radical policies, argues Martin McQuillan
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Parental guidance required
When toddler-wrangling there’s no time to procrastinate, John Kaag discovers
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Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T. J. Clark
Alex Danchev applauds a study of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinker-painters
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Hollywood madness
Davina Quinlivan detects a shift to more rounded representations of mental illness on screen