1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Faber, £8.99 ISBN 97805710818202. The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar edited by John Ross Methuen Drama, £6.99 ISBN 97807136334983. Ward...
Markets and governments should not be viewed as opposing forces, explains Natalie Gold
In Mark Rowlands' polemical and problematic philosophical exploration of fame, he blames the moral malaise of the present on celebrity culture. Rowlands terms this degenerate version of...
The magnitude of Winston Churchill's political career, with its numerous twists and turns, continues to baffle the efforts of biographers. The official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, buried him...
The Middle Ages were dark, bloody and brutal, discovers John Arnold
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett, chair of languages, literatures and cultures, Illinois State University. Profile Books, £15.00, ISBN...
Roy Harris is unconvinced by a muddled treatise on the abstractions of 'God' and 'Mind'
In 1968, the journalist Arthur Morse published While Six Million Died, an expose of American indifference and even antipathy towards the plight of European Jewry during the Holocaust. Since Morse's...
The savage text makes hatred holy." There is much in the Bible that seems to endorse cruelty, hatred, violence and oppression, and texts taken from it and read literally and in isolation can be used...
GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESRegions: Critical Essays in Human GeographyEdited by J. Nicholas Entrikin, professor of geography, University of California, Los AngelesAshgate, £150.00ISBN...
The new chief executive of the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England has been named.Sir Alan Langlands, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Dundee, will succeed David Eastwood...
"Those who can't do, teach; those who really can't do, publish" - so said Australia's best-regarded talk-show host, Andrew Denton. He was speaking rather cheekily on his show, Enough Rope, to Jann...
"Another first for Poppleton." Those were the triumphant words used by our Director of Curriculum Development, Janet Fluellen, as she announced the introduction from this September of a brand-new BA...
Alan Ryan muses on the London Met chief's views on state funding for Oxbridge
Kevin McCarron considers doggy bags and Debrett's, passing the port and choosing urinals, and why simple good manners really do make the man