Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film
Davina Quinlivan considers the monster as a figure of loss and sadness as the BFI begins a season of ghoulish thrills

Davina Quinlivan considers the monster as a figure of loss and sadness as the BFI begins a season of ghoulish thrills

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Andrew Briggs on an effort to cast down faith-based reasoning

K.E. Gover on a delightful guide to seeing art with new eyes

Danielle Sands on a call for broader, more creative and politically engaged modes of thought

Sherry Lee Linkon on a 鈥榗ommunity of memory鈥 fighting for a place called home

Peter Messent on why upper-class men felt at home on the frontier

Pernille Arenfeldt on a fine counterargument to reductionist claims about women and Islam

Roger Morgan on a peer鈥檚 review of Brussels鈥 weaknesses
The BUAV welcomes public discussion about animal experiments (鈥淎nimal research under the microscope鈥, 17 October). However, the fundamental flaw in universities hosting the Big Animal Research Debate...

Brownfield reclamation unites academics, artists and community

Major report on selective education used 鈥榠nappropriate鈥 references
Nicholas Till鈥檚 lament for the North Norfolk coastline and for pastoral sentiment in opera is聽well taken (鈥淓legy in a country churchyard鈥, 24 October). The lonely coast at Cley is聽ever more heavily...

Canada branch of London School of Business and Finance labelled an 鈥榰nlicensed private career college鈥 and told to halt teaching

On Halloween, Richard Sugg reveals how early stories of death from paralysing nightmares morphed into tales of vampires