Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, by Lauren Elkin
Book of the week: Deborah Longworth meanders with female writer-walkers getting their measure of the metropolis
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The week in higher education – 25 August 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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What are you reading? – 25 August 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything, by Adrian Bejan
From climate change to artificial intelligence, constructal law has a theory, says Richard Joyner
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Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, by Jennifer A. Reich
Helen Bynum on a study of current immunisation practices in North America and the rise of the home-grown expert
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Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology, by Gary T. Marx
Paul Bernal on a vital and comprehensive survey of how our era of ubiquitous observation arose
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Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible, by Jem Bloomfield
Seeking a deep conversation between Scripture and the Bard’s works is a fool’s errand, argues Peter J. Smith
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New and noteworthy – 25 August 2016
The score on Brian Eno, the struggles of America’s down and out in cheap motels, and how our forebears slept
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Whatever happened to the campus sexual revolution?
Lincoln Allison takes a fond look back at the permissiveness prevalent at universities in the 1960s and 1970s, while a more ambivalent Susan Bassnett recalls a reality that didn’t quite live up to...
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How campus libraries became the place to read, pray, learn
Jack Grove learns how sites have been reinvented for the 24/7 digital age, while Donald Brown reflects on the role libraries played in his journey from the Mississippi Delta to Oxford
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Laurie Taylor – 25 August 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Erasmus is more than a bargaining chip
It is imperative that the UK commits to participating in the student exchange programme post-Brexit, says Tim Farron
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Standards fall when satisfaction is the name of the game
Treating students as consumers has precipitated a rush to the bottom to give them exactly what they want, says John Warren
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Supervisors can do a lot more to support PhD students
Many doctoral candidates feel poorly looked after. More awareness and empathy from academics can help fight that, says Geoffrey Cantor