Many tales, but no idea which will have impact
Universities' efforts to collect impact case studies for the 2014 research excellence framework may be in full flow, but uncertainty and confusion still abound.
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In the virtual newsroom, scholars tell the rest of the story
Simon Baker gets the scoop on a website offering expert insight on breaking news direct to the public
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Metric perversion
The use of journal rankings and citations data throughout the REF would hamstring innovation, argues Hugh Willmott
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Voice of experience: we cannot afford to waste our untapped potential
We must protect widening-participation funding for the sake of the disadvantaged, disenfranchised and disillusioned, says Martin Bean
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Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
Even in the upper echelons of the Third Reich, one man's cruelty stood out, writes Richard J. Evans
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A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present
Despite laws and mores forbidding aggression, the appetite for bloodshed lingers, finds Joanna Bourke
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Mughal Architecture and Gardens
This lavish and beautiful volume, illustrated with colour photographs by Amit Pasricha, surveys one of the world's most sumptuous groups of buildings and gardens erected under the aegis of an...
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The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits
What do you get if you cross a philosophical look at jokes with a liberal thinker in favour of toleration? Answer: Emrys Westacott! Laugh? I almost did. That is until I got to the bit about posh...
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Jonathan Fenby values a life of the man who began the People's Republic's economic metamorphosis
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Mary I: England's Catholic Queen
Balanced views of Mary I are rare. She is more often than not cast as the "Bloody Mary" of Protestant legend: reactionary, obsessive, persecuting - and, while we're on the subject, short and ugly as...
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Survivors: The Animals and Plants that Time Has Left Behind
Richard Fortey's new book, a delight like all its predecessors, considers what are commonly termed "living fossils", in other words, plants and animals that have shown very little change, often for...
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The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized
Rupert Gethin admires a philosopher's search to assimilate a Buddhist understanding of the world
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Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers
Our fathers quickly become synonymous with secrets. When we are very small, they go off to a mysterious place called "work" and often return when we are asleep. My father could not be spoken to until...
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Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
Part of Jan-Werner Müller's interest in ideas concerns the question of where they come from. For instance, in referring to Francis Fukuyama's concept of the "end of history", he notes that "not for...
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Diary
LondonSigismund's Watch: A Tiny CatastropheAlthough Barbara Loftus' mother Hildegard fled to England from Nazi Germany in 1939, it was not until 1995 that she began to talk about her experiences and...