In at the kill
What is it about crime and universities? As the film of The Oxford Murders premieres, Matthew Reisz probes a world of professor-sleuths, philosophical riddles and the academics who are hooked on them
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The American Dream
It is a tempting proposition: a new life and a new job at a US or Canadian university. But what is the reality of academic life in North America? Esther Oxford asks those who took the plunge
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17 April 2008
Destroying the evidence - RAE team orders panels to ditch records
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Gloria Monday: News from nowhere
Has-beens, wannabes and lechers wrestle with PowerPoint, bad English and alcohol in a deadly dull German townlet: yes, it’s academic conference season again
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Fighting words, in all their glory
Simon Blackburn revels in a trawl through our rich and varied tradition of ad hominem attacks
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The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
Do unto others as they do unto you" and "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine". These and many other aphorisms capture the reciprocal nature of co-operative human interactions. But why do we...
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Theory through the prism of a life
A thinker who had no truck with biography is well served by this moving portrait, says Chris Thornhill
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Ribbon Culture: Charity, Compassion and Public Awareness
This is a timely and very welcome book that critically examines the trend in the wearing of charity ribbons. Sarah Moore charts the development of awareness ribbon campaigns through a well-researched...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Exeter
1. The Selfseeker by Anthony Hyman Teignvalley Press, £20.00 ISBN 97809555387042. God, Humanities and the Cosmos edited by Christopher Southgate Continuum, £32.99 ISBN 97805670301603. Al-Qaeda: The...
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The book of the week: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
June Purvis on the mother of all resources
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The Week in Books
Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text by Jas Elsner, Humfry Payne, senior research fellow in classical art and archaeology, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Princeton University Press...
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Bad teeth and shrewd politics
Paul T. Nicholson on a lucid summary of the Queen of the Nile's historical context and eternal allure
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARCHAEOLOGY- Archaeology as Political ActionBy Randall McGuire, professor of anthropology, Binghamton UniversityUniversity of California Press, £38.95 and £17.95ISBN...
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First Impressions competition: 10 April 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Pulitzer prize-winning depiction of a post-apocalyptic world:“When he woke in the woods in the dark...