Visions on the up train
Stanley Spencer
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Defining the undefinable
The Handbook of Sociolinguistics
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an early 19th-century poet who was deserted by hersea-faring husband: "The...
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Acts of inequality
Women and the Law
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Faustian deals in the ether
Technology and Privacy
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Justice and its insult to injury
The Damages Lottery
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Parallax
The cultural studies journal parallax is published quarterly and not three times a year as stated in last week's review (THES, February 20).
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A step towards freedom
Lesbians and gays are celebrating a victory over bigotry in psychology. Celia Kitzinger hopes it presages a more inclusive approach to research. Lesbian and gay studies in Britain achieved a major...
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Plath's unquiet slumbers
Ted Hughes's new collection of poems to his dead wife allows him to counter criticism of his own role in Sylvia Plath's tragic life. Cora Kaplan explores a literary war that has raged for 35 years....
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The power of Superted
John Osmond interviews Elan Closs Stephens, the drama lecturer who has assumed a key role in the future of S4C, the Welsh-language television channel. In the 1980s, the very survival of the Welsh...
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The surest way to God
Could religion hold the key to the environmental catastrophes threatening the world? Geneticist Sam Berry explains why natural theology is currently in vogue among scientists. The eighth earl of...
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Blinded by blackness
Socrates and Beethoven were black, and whites are genetic mutants say some Afrocentric scholars. Stephen Howe on an inverted racism The history of Africa and Africans has probably been subject to...
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Let's hear some emotion
Synthesised speech is rarely convincing. In our series on young researchers, Katrina Wishart meets Iain Murray, who wants to put life into monotone electronic voices "It's like standing on the edge...
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Probing the great divide
Paul Nurse is one of the most celebrated biologists of his generation. His work on the behaviour of cells is at the heart of cancer research, yet he thinks that a cure for Britain's No 1 killer is...
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Appointments
University of Birmingham Michael Clarke, professor of public policy and head of the school of public policy, has been appointed pro vice chancellor. University of Oxford David Holmes, registrar and...