It's better to travel - but Erasmus credits can get lost in translation
'Lack of trust' and course mismatches mean study abroad may go unrecognised. Jack Grove reports
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Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
For the artist formerly known as Boz, success was no foregone conclusion, writes Valerie Sanders
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Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions
Mary Evans applauds a collaboration that attuned our ear to female voices in fiction
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The Queer Art of Failure
A writer who begins a book by citing the children's TV character SpongeBob SquarePants, who makes the amnesiac fish Dory from Finding Nemo a central figure, and who describes the animated film...
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Perilous Glory: The Rise of Western Military Power
What is it about pre-modern military historians that tempts them to sermonise so readily about the contemporary world? Ancient Greek historians Victor Davis Hanson and Donald Kagan have both become...
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The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization
A morsel of Montaigne manque in the midst of horror proves not to be to Alex Danchev's taste
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Before Porn was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse
Growing up in Cold War West Germany, teenagers would share knowing grins whenever the name Beate Uhse was mentioned: it stood for all things vaguely adult and naughty. Little did we know about the...
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Loving Animals: Toward a New Animal Advocacy
Kathy Rudy has written Loving Animals with the intent of establishing fresh perspectives on animal ethics. In pursuit of this goal, she investigates common dilemmas concerning the treatment of non-...
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Claude: The Enchanted Landscape
Sheila McTighe on a fresh look at Claude's working process, at his embodiment of place and at his idealisation of the pastoral
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Diary
LondonHoneypotIt is 1982. Susanne is a beautiful Swedish woman in her mid-thirties. So what impels her to leave behind her husband and child, embark on a wild journey of self-discovery and volunteer...
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The Pick - Film
Film Tate Modern (until 11 March 2012)Digital cinema has enormous potential, argues Tacita Dean in the book that accompanies her new installation, but today it is still too "blandly euphoric at all...
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Thought control: new evidence
Alarming allegations of "impact rigging" have been prompted by the revelation that Gordon Lapping's recent address to the Poppleton branch of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos on "Epistemic...
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Leader: It's still a joy after all these years
We have much to celebrate at 40, but what remains most gratifying is being part of a vital, creative and committed sector
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Young at heart: Harvard at 375 shows appetite for risk-taking
The president of the US' pre-eminent university is planning an innovative future. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
• The head of the private New College of the Humanities has said that the institution, which will charge tuition fees of £18,000 a year, will interview candidates rather than determine entry based...