Within a week of the Twin Towers falling I saw, at a sparsely attended cinema, the beautiful future-set AI: Artificial Intelligence. Late in the film, its frail robotic heroes approach a flooded and...
"Return to your garret in Oxford. Sadly I do not think that I can be of great help to you, but I am sure that you are on the right lines." It was with these words that Professor J.J. Scarisbrick said...
Robert Bartlett is intrigued by how England came to embrace a fictional character as its patron saint
Ask a dozen people at random to describe what science fiction is and you will probably get a dozen different answers. Start a discussion with those 12 people about what, if anything, science fiction...
Trauma theorists have made much of a simple human reaction: when we are traumatised, we do not know what to say; words literally fail us - a debilitating problem if you happen to be a novelist.As...
The influence of seaside towns on our culture goes far beyond the kiss-me-quick hat, says Peter Borsay
Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer is worth its cover price for the collection of essays in Part One alone, a grouping of four papers under the heading "Revisiting Feminist Critique". The rest of...
The theme of this book is understanding and tackling worldwide poverty, conceived as the denial of human rights, and more especially the rights to access the resources, services and political...
Never judge a book by its cover. In this case, the cover shows us a veiled woman on a Syrian street, ignoring a painting of a youthful Hafiz al-Asad, who looks here almost like Omar Sharif. The...
A gathering of great thinkers convinces David Revill that our modern minds need expanding
Italians are different from you and me. They eat better. American sociologist and ethno-photographer Douglas Harper discovered this on his first visit to Italy. The food was fresher, the tastes...
ECONOMICS- Firms' Objectives and Internal Organisation in a Global Economy: Positive and Normative AnalysisEdited by Luca Lambertini, professor of economics, University of Bologna. Palgrave Macmillan...
Our Head of Very Popular But Tendentious History, Julian Glaze, has hit back at the accusation by a leading Croatian sociologist that those "at the top" in the humanities display "narcissistic traits...
Some speaking engagements discomfort Tim Birkhead, but he is undeterred
A European project aims to build a citations approach that works outside the sciences. Zoë Corbyn reports