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  8. Heartless animal or rational beast?

    How can an animal rights leader who finds 'pet' a demeaning term argue that severely disabled babies should be killed? Kate Worsley meets Peter Singer, a philosopher who believes that not all lives...

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  9. Britain at risk of botching its ABC

    Half of the country's adults remain poor readers, but Diane McGuinness argues that the governments latest literary strategy is in danger of ignoring some vital lessons. After six years of research on...

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  10. Talented artists or just con artists?

    Was the recent Spanish holiday hoax by Leeds University art students performance art or just a stunt? Alison Utley reports Leeds University's fine art department could not believe its luck last week...

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  11. 'The worst pain came when trying to pee'

    An ancient ritual due for sacrifice Mina's (not her real name) story is not untypical of the suffering that British girls go through every year. She is a 30-year-old arts graduate born and raised in...

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  12. An ancient ritual due for sacrifice

    Millions of women worldwide have suffered the searing pain and harm of clitoral circumcision. African film-maker Ladi Ladebo tells Tim Greenhalgh how he aims to show why the practice must end Ladi...

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  13. At the cutting edge

    In the first of a series in which top academics discuss their ground-breaking research, archaeologist Colin Renfrew explains how our genes hold the key to a linguistic riddle 8,000 years old The Indo...

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  14. Glittering stars and their prizes

    Brilliant objects of desire The star phenomenon got its biggest boost from Duke University, where from the mid 1980s the hiring of two huge names, Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson, shoved Duke's...

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  15. Temptation and forbearance

    Brilliant objects of desire Stars are often made by books. In 1995, Alan Taylor, a professor of history at the University of California at Davis, won a Pulitzer Prize for William Cooper's Town. The...

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