The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence
Paul Lowe applauds a trenchant defence of photojournalism and the challenges it raises
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Seeds, Sex and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants has Shaped our World
Jonathan Silvertown welcomes a new guide to the science of plants and their not-so-secret sex life
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Them and Us: Changing Britain: Why We Need a Fair Society
Will Hutton is an angry man - angry about the depredations of financial capitalism, angry about a system that offered Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, who lost both legs after a landmine exploded in...
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The Canon: Walden; Or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
In my five years lecturing at the University of Wales, Lampeter, I was known as an academic who rarely smiled, joked or enthused about the texts. Walden was the exception - I can never think about...
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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Gary Day climbs on to the see-saw of the English Modernist movement and enjoys the ride
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Egypt: A Short History
Robert Tignor, recently retired from a chair in history at Princeton University, has a well-established reputation as a historian of British colonialism in Africa, particularly Egypt, Kenya and...
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Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas
Recently I watched a very disturbing film, The Stoning of Soraya M. Based on a true story, the 2008 film depicts the murder in the mid-1980s of an Iranian woman by her husband, her father, her young...
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News in Brief
CanadaCheers for 310 new chairsA C$5.6 million (£173 million) injection of funds for science and technology research aims to put Canada among the world leaders in those fields. Tony Clement, the...
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Older, wiser, jobless: US adults drawn by degrees
Jon Marcus reports from Seattle on efforts to coax mature students via credit for career experience
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Grant Winners
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCILStarting Grant CompetitionAlmost €580 million (£491 million) has been awarded by the ERC in its third Starting Grant Competition. The awards of up to €2 million each are...
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Blogconfidential: Should I stay or should I go?
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Should I stay or should I go?
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Appointments
University of HullTina OvertonA professor of chemistry education who left "boring" industry for academia has been elected president of the education division at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)....
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Campus round-up
Institute of EducationTake care with their educationMany young people who have been in care fail to get to university because of "an overriding lack of support". A five-country study, led by...
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Odds and quads
This striking black costume was used in The Brilliant and the Dark, a cantata for female voices composed for the National Federation of Women's Institutes by Australian composer Malcolm Williamson to...
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Capital pains: axe to fall as BIS plans to share the losses
Minister expects 44% cut to be shared equally across department's portfolio. Paul Jump writes