Novel argument
Robert Eaglestone on a bravura exploration of the most demanding subject in literary criticism
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Typical small-town 颅broad-mindedness
Small towns were often accommodating to those without a straight sensibility, finds Sally R. Munt
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Privacy and Media Freedom, by Raymond Wacks
Arne Hintz welcomes a timely contribution to the post-Leveson debate
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The Future Is Not What it Used to Be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity, by J枚rg Friedrichs
Jon Turney is dispirited by the rhetoric of collapse in a sober analysis of two global crises
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Do put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington
Hayley Jayne Bradley on theatre鈥檚 love/hate relationship with victims, vixens and transgressors
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Power Beyond Scrutiny: Media Justice and Accountability, by Justin Schlosberg
Ivor Gaber on how broadcasters report stories in which the status quo is under threat
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Mozart鈥檚 Ghosts: Haunting the Halls of Musical Culture, by Mark Everist
Mark Berry on what lies behind the modern reverence for Mozart鈥檚 music
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Campus round-up
Eggs benedictionA research project is under way that aims to聽shed light on how the relationship between humans and chickens has developed over the past 8,000 years. Led by Mark Maltby, reader in...
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Official history of Blighty鈥檚 propaganda machine
Project unveiled to give Ministry of Information the historical treatment. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
ChinaUS joint venture gets green lightThe Chinese government has formally approved the establishment of a new institution created jointly by a US and a Chinese university. Duke Kunshan University, a...
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No crosses, but plenty of cross words
Proposal to outlaw overt displays of religious affiliation would affect academics. Nathan Greenfield reports
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Inking and doing
Rivka Isaacson tells how her Jewish background and job as a lecturer in chemical biology have fuelled her fascination
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Letters
Hey, teacher, leave those trainers aloneI agree with Anthony Seldon (鈥淩ight to reply鈥, Opinion, 19聽September): university students should receive high-quality teaching and effective student feedback...
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Sally Feldman - Rite to party
Freshers鈥 Week rituals mark the transition to adulthood, says Sally聽Feldman