In the vortex of angst generated by scandal at News International and the complicity of Britain's political class, it is cheering to read a book that makes one feel a little more optimistic about the...
A focus on the joyous and teasing spirit in the writer's lyric novels appeals to Deborah Longworth
Earlier this year, The Guardian devoted one of its "In praise of..." editorials to Giorgio Vasari, on the 500th anniversary of his birth. It celebrated one of the most remarkable and influential...
In the 1980s, the Brundtland Commission's report on sustainable development radically stated that the environment was important for the poor. Damage to the environment was caused by the poor, but...
The provocative 'Blue Labour' and 'Red Tory' visions for renewal put forth by two academics have the ears of their respective party leaders - and a good deal in common, says A.W. Purdue
When Jorge Cham adapted his hugely popular PhD cartoon for film, he eschewed animation and hired real Caltech students and academics for his comically true-to-life doctoral tales. Paul Jump reports
Degas may be long dead, but his figures move through time to remind us of the beauty of his work and its visceral power, writes Michael Howard
LondonHamra Abbas: CitiesKuwaiti-born artist Hamra Abbas was educated in Lahore and Berlin, and now divides her time between Boston and Islamabad. The works on display at the Green Cardamom gallery...
Credit: BBC/Estate of Vasily GrossmanFirst-hand experience: Vasily Grossman's manuscript was "arrested"Life and FateBBC Radio 4The Archers is sacrosanct. But from Sunday 18 September until a week...
Kirk Swavely, our Senior Manager of External Relations, has welcomed the "brave" policy stance recently adopted by Eric Thomas, the new president of Universities UK.Swavely told our reporter Keith...
Here is a little puzzle. Picture two groups. In one, place those blogs that you have read about academic, cultural or political matters that interest you. In the other, put the newspapers most often...
I fear you have fallen victim to identity fraud. Surely the Tim Luckhurst who pontificates at such length about the decline in newspaper readership cannot be the same man who, I am certain, would...
Does Tim Luckhurst take a pessimistic view of the future of print journalism in the world of blogging, tweeting and people's vastly expanded ability to comment online untrammelled by restrictions?...
I may be the last person you would expect to rally to the defence of David Willetts, but if his recent comments on differential tariffs for A levels are interpreted in a certain way, they open a...
So vice-chancellors could not bring sense to bear on fees and funding policy reforms because universities are autonomous institutions and they knew that charges were going to rise anyway? ("Be ready...