The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting, by Alex Vasudevan
Takeovers of empty properties reveal different conceptions of community, Clare Griffiths writes
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Big Capital: Who Is London For?, by Anna Minton
Lisa Mckenzie on the property speculation that extracts profit from a global city by pushing out the working classes
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The week in higher education – 13 July 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Bad for business? One in five global MBAs runs at a loss
Universities continue to run ‘jewel in the crown’ programme because of its ‘prestige’, survey finds
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THE survey: one in three English v-cs backs Labour plan to scrap fees
Half of university leaders surveyed say £9,000 system is unsustainable, showing widespread desire for major reform
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Pakistani universities must capitalise on Chinese investment
The $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a huge opportunity to build academic capacity in Pakistan, say Abdur Rehman Cheema and Muhammad Haris
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Tuition fees could pay a political price
Higher education policy could easily be drawn into the deal-making and compromises that are routine in hung parliaments, says Nick Pearce
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Summertime, and the livin’ is queasy
The pressure of producing high-quality research publications spoils the long vacation for many academics, says Rachel Moss
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Universities need to plan for a dark future if academics prefer their own Plan B
Conditions that undermine the notion of scholarly vocation – relentless work, ubiquitous bureaucracy – can cause academics acute distress and spur them to quit, says Ruth Barcan
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The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction: A Linguistic Stylistic Approach, by Reshmi Dutta-Flanders
Book of the week: Sharon Wheeler investigates how mystery writers play a guessing game with their reader-sleuths
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Books interview: Brent Hayes Edwards
The professor of English and author of Epistrophies discusses the literary works that sing out to him
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Times Higher Education’s academic holiday guide 2017
With the holiday season upon us, five academics suggest some unique destinations you may want to consider – or perhaps not
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‘Unfortunately, our referees are not up to the job’
For those vacationing in Peer Review Land, Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers some help with the local lingo
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What are you reading? – 13 July 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers