Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
Harold Shukman on a fascinating study of Britain's daring wartime plans for counter-revolution
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Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
Over the course of Edith Wharton's long writing career, her women characters do grow up, in notable contrast to her male characters; and, insist Janet Beer and Avril Horner in their book Edith...
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume 1 - Microspherology
Few academics in the UK will have read the writings of Peter Sloterdijk, but in Germany he is a superstar. His 1983 book Critique of Cynical Reason remains the best-selling philosophical work written...
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Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others
The law and order brigade actually makes the US a more violent place, Joanna Bourke learns
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The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature
When I picked up this book, I was expecting two things: a study of the creative retelling of a key classical myth (or its reception) in children's literature; and a focus on texts of fantasy fiction...
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Ten Popes Who Shook the World
Like it or loathe it, you can't really ignore the papacy. It's the world's oldest dynasty, and it commands the loyalty of nearly a fifth of the world's population and the attention of a great many...
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Captured by the castle
Downton Abbey's true star, argues A.W. Purdue, is the house itself: the ultimate British status symbol
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Boom and bust
The University of Wales was brought down by validation, its money-making machine. David Matthews asks how that happened, how others might be stopped from putting cash before quality and whether the...
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Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever
Peter Hill admires a Japanese artist whose obsessive nature has led to the production of works at an incomparable rate
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Diary
EdinburghThe Sculpture ShowThis major exhibition, which continues at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art until 24 June, celebrates sculpture in all its many forms. Taking over all the...
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The Pick - Five-ring circus of the arts
Credit: Bregezer Festspiele/Karl ForsterCiao bella: Judith Weir's Miss Fortune updates a Sicilian folk taleThe Olympic year will bring with it the London 2012 Festival, modestly billed as "the...
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Your 2012 resolution: don't make one
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has reminded all academic staff that the making of New Year's resolutions is a violation of official university policy.He told our reporter...
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Rip EPSRC equation up and start again
An open letter to David WillettsWe the undersigned are writing to you in your capacity as the minister of state for universities and science to again ask you to initiate an inquiry into the role and...
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Dividing chaos by two
"One quango to rule them all?" (22/29 December) set out many of the difficulties with the government's proposal to make the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England a "super-regulator". The...
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Simply pick the best
Ken Smith's recent letter regarding the percentage of students from state and independent schools going to Oxbridge is a direct plea for a quota system ("Super-selection only perpetuates privilege",...