Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story, by Randy Olson
Researchers must tell a good tale about their work without skewing the science, Cait聽MacPhee says
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Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives, by Karin Wieland
A highly readable study traces how both women became part of cultural and political networks that shaped the 20th century, writes Ulrike Zitzlsperger
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Remaking History: The Past in聽Contemporary Historical Fictions, by Jerome de Groot
The question of whether fictional representations of the past can offer as much insight as scholarly histories is tackled with verve, says Philip聽Kemp
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World, by Michael Marmot
Inequality in income lowers the life expectancy of everyone in society, says Marcus Chown
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Pure Intelligence: The Life of William Hyde Wollaston, by Melvyn C. Usselman
Richard Joyner on a remarkable but forgotten chemist
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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, by James Shapiro
Lisa Hopkins on a defining time in the Bard鈥檚 career
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The Con Men: Hustling in New York City, by Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton
From living rent-free to Madoff鈥檚 fraud, a study of scams forces us to face our sins, says Dick Hobbs
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What are you reading? 鈥 22 October 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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How my love of Jan谩膷ek led to a role in the Cold War
Nicholas Till on how his love for the Czech composer led to his bringing back more than LPs from Soviet-dominated Prague
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Africa鈥檚 鈥榯eaching shops鈥: the rise of private universities
Are the continent鈥檚 for-profits exploiting students or have they helped to widen access?, asks Chris Havergal
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The week in higher education 鈥 22 October 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press