First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you must identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel that marked a decline in reputation, according to the author's contemporaries: "London....
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Novel ideas of national characters
The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 12
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Baring all makes for quite a striking portrait
Lord Cromer
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Stale words on the way we speak
Everyday Language and Everyday Life
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Sibling rivalries and other tales of sisterhood
Freedom's Cause - Sylvia Pankhurst
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Martyr who despised elevation to an 'ism'
Gandhi in his Time and Ours
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Gifted raconteur who got the story before historians
Living to Tell the Tale
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Delusions of the masses
The Wisdom of Crowds
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Stroking parents' skulls to salve their own scars
Carrying a Secret in My Heart... Children of the Victims of the Reprisals after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956
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Musings on how the father of history saw life and death
Herodotus and His World
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All Islam in site of sultan's last sigh
The Alhambra
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Laurie Taylor column
In a shock announcement yesterday, Mr G. Middlewhite, the managing director of Poppleton Pork Products plc, declared that Poppleton would soon be home to a new university. From September 2005,...
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Leader: Armed response to a violent threat
Violent animal-rights activists pose Britain's biggest home-grown terrorist threat. Unlike those protesters who press their objections peacefully, they are not interested in compromise or negotiation...
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Leader: Open to high standards
This week's House of Commons report on scientific publishing comes close to free advertising for open access, a new way of getting research papers into the hands of scientists and the public...
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Overgeneralised and over here 1
Ayako Yoshino's entertaining attack on British ignorance of foreign students (Features, July 16) presents a one-way perspective on cross-cultural issues. All of her amusing anecdotes illustrate...