Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress
Judith Weingarten is fascinated by the woman who, amid decline and fall, ruled an empire for 12 years
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The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios
In Susan Hill's superlative ghost story The Small Hand, a London book dealer named Adam travels on behalf of a wealthy client to a remote French monastery in search of Shakespeare's First Folio. Hill...
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Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes
In our troubled times, there is much to learn from John Maynard Keynes' approach to understanding and remedying the problems of stagnating economies and unstable financial systems.Interest in Keynes...
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
An investigation into our behaviour shows we're not as logical as we imagine, Miriam Teschl discovers
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Mediating Climate Change
Julie Doyle used to study techniques for the visualisation of the body in the context of anatomy; in her spare time she was a Greenpeace campaigner. This book blends those preoccupations: it asks how...
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Stravinsky's Ballets
Igor Stravinsky's stature as one of the most influential composers of the modern era seems all but incontestable, and Charles Joseph's study accordingly situates its subject as the 20th-century...
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Turn on, tune in, don't drop out
The first months at university are critical for a happy student experience. Indeed, so crucial are they that they are arguably a key focus of QAA reviews. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Sage advice
Close ties with Nobel laureates, global entrepreneurs and distinguished academics can boost an institution's international profile, as well as providing fresh insights, experience - and a hint of...
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Mondrian Nicholson: In Parallel
Mondrian's and Nicholson's lives intertwined, but links between the artists should not be conflated with parallels in their art, says Alexander Massouras
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Diary
LondonCamellia Festival 2012The Chiswick House camellia collection is probably the oldest in the Western world. The second annual Camellia Festival, which runs from 18 February to 18 March, promises...
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The Pick - The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of HoffmannIn repertory at the London Coliseum, until 10 MarchThe strange, theatrical and often disquieting tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) were a great favourite of Sigmund Freud's....
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A surfeit of leaders?
In a shock statement, our university's Head of Leadership, Stewart Edge, has announced a moratorium on the appointment of new leaders.Speaking to our reporter, Keith Ponting (30), Mr Edge explained...
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Speak out against damaging visa policy
Are we ordinary academics in danger of replicating Universities UK's pusillanimous stance towards the government's ill-considered directives on higher education by rolling over without a fight...
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Fear of failure? (1 of 2)
I read with interest the opposition that some Scottish principals expressed at proposals to improve university governance ("Scotland's university chiefs cool on governance review", 9 February). I...
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Fear of failure? (2 of 2)
Your report "Scotland's university chiefs cool on governance review" is as disappointing as it is incomplete. It is, however, surprising - in the light of the furore over executive pay and bonuses -...