Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease, by Carolyn A. Day
Book of the week: Shahidha Bari enjoys a study of how tuberculosis influenced notions of attractiveness and breeding
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What are you reading? – 28 September 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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World in brief – 28 September 2017
United States Right-ear advantage Inside Higher Ed reported on recent cases in which universities have ensured that figures from the Right speak on campus, while speakers on the Left have been “...
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Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-cultural Communication, by Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts
A look at intercultural dialogue ends up as an irritating guide to manners, says Susan Bassnett
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Books editor’s blog: Custard, Culverts and Cake: academics on life in The Archers
Ambridge provides fertile ground for academic analysis
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Sir David Cannadine: ‘I’m all for a free trade in ideas’
The distinguished historian talks to Matthew Reisz about his latest book and his new role as president of the British Academy
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Laurie Taylor – 28 September 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Prize and prejudice?
Despite their scientific achievements, women account for only 5% of Nobel prize-winners. It diminishes them – and the award, says John Gill
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Pro-colonialism paper: how did it get published?
We are writing to complain about the recent publication of the article “The case for colonialism” by Bruce Gilley in the journal Third World Quarterly (“Pro-colonialism paper outcry prompts author to...
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Be so bold
The response suggested by Sir Anton Muscatelli, the chair of the Russell Group, to the criticism buffeting UK universities is both dispiriting and lacking in boldness (“Ignore the cacophony of...
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Premier rates
Are we asking the right question about vice-chancellors’ pay (“Because they’re worth it?”, Features, 14 September)? Is it them, or is the prime minister getting enough? The population of Canada’s...
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Pirate's code
On the matter of vice-chancellors’ pay, and with apologies to Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan: I am the model of a university vice-chancellorOn any given question I’m a very able answererI’ve headed...