Humanities

Universities teach attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning, which 1930s Germany, 1990s Rwanda and now today’s US show us are vital, argues Donald E. Hall

Discipline needs to forge new research agendas and promote its benefits more effectively, workshop hears

Formation of British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies follows ‘explosion’ of teaching and research

A study of adolescents’ spaces unlocks mysteries and nostalgia. Enter if you dare, says Emma Rees

From the first fires to other forms of prohibition, a first-rate study charts a complex history, says Robert Gellately

American Academy of Arts and Sciences warns that problem exists from school right through to university

The most popular Times Higher Education stories of the last year revealed

Britain got sober patriotism, purpose and more from its post-war leader, says Gordon Marsden

Book of the week: The scrutiny to which two intellectuals submit their relationship fascinates Shahidha Bari

Martin Cohen on a study that strives to position a much-quoted thinker as a social geographer

As we cannot cut the cords tethering us to tech, we must fully grasp the connection, says John Gilbey

A study focused on Singapore’s Biopolis centre concentrates on various global ‘currents’ in bioscience, says Flora Samuel

Shelley King is happy to linger over an erudite, witty and intimate journey through Wonderland

Provost of Universitas 21 tells THE summit that universities must engage with institutions outside their elite groups

UK universities can now ‘feel confident’ in recruiting postgraduate students for 2017-18, says RCUK chair

Shahidha Bari on an idiosyncratic and tantalising inward-looking exercise in soulful diary-keeping

Tristan Bekinschtein lauds a Nobel laureate’s fusion of art interpretation and analysis with the internal mechanisms by which we see works of art

Are our mental faculties really too unevolved to keep us afloat in an ocean of digital distraction? asks Shane O’Mara

The tale of a shocking killing falls short as true crime and as social history, says Sharon Wheeler

Book of the week: From the black stuff to books, who gets the goods in a sharing and streaming era? asks Paul Bernal

Saikat Majumdar looks at how public universities and liberal arts education in India still bear the marks of colonialism

June Purvis on an engaging study of the doughty pioneers who swapped Edwardian life for the front line

London as an eco-village? Treehouses in Accra? Danny Dorling lauds beautiful and bold what-ifs

All the spoken and unspoken desires in one household are unveiled in a study of their prolific, and introspective, writings, says Jane Shaw

Mark Gatenby considers what it means for business schools – and universities more generally – to embrace Utopian ways of thinking

Has the corporation acted as an arm of the state in the past, and might it in the future? Ivor Gaber wonders

A.W. Purdue on the man whose narcissism led to his becoming a mouthpiece for the Nazis

Duncan Wu on the art of biography

Book of the week: Political Svengalis, not the public, drive populist pantomimes of democracy, says Angelia Wilson

Book of the week: New sources yield fresh insights and oversights by the father of psychoanalysis, says Janet Sayers

Karen Harvey on a cultural history of sexuality that attempts to put real people centre stage

Martin Cohen on the philosophical implications of living the simple life – and owning a homemade toilet-brush holder

Cheap taxis come at a price but remodelling the online marketplace is an option, says Kylie Jarrett

A study offers a new perspective on one of the most important yet elusive Jewish thinkers of the past century

Book of the week: A memoir wrestles with moral questions about using animals in research. Kristin Andrews writes

A clear-eyed study of shiny and new inventions calls for better oversight, says Richard Joyner

Clare Griffiths on a study that recovers the complexities of the lives of six individuals who lived their principles

More helpful advice from Zachary Foster on how to successfully overcomplicate your writing

National brutality has taken many twists and turns but domestic savagery endures, finds Dick Hobbs

William Kolbrener on a study of the tales that centre on a place that is both a real Polish city and an imaginary realm

Once upon a time, authors pushed young readers to see the world very differently, says Shelley King

A controversial philosopher turns his mind to subjects ranging from happiness and euthanasia to vegetarianism, incest and doping, says Jane O’Grady

Seneca meets The Sopranos in a lively who, what, when, where and why of cursing, says Tom Palaima

Clare Griffiths on a study of the whirlwind life of the flame-haired Labour minister

In liberal arts and technical disciplines alike, we must help students develop a quantitative mindset, argues Anthony Monaco

Helen Berry on the socio-economic and political drivers behind consumer culture in colonial America

Catherine Clinton on the legacy of a marginalised group in a supposedly class-free society

As the US’ ‘dumpster fire’ of a presidential election looms, it is more important than ever that students engage with other perspectives and acknowledge that their views aren’t universal, says Maximillian Alvarez

A. W. Purdue on the suffering of populations of multi-ethnic empires in the years after the Great War

Elizabeth Greene on a study focusing on the American artist’s use of verse in his work

Book of the week: Hillegonda Rietveld on the fierce creative energy of Big Apple clubs in the early Eighties

Book of the week: Rachel Bowlby tracks the impact of a strange and foreign novel across languages and culture

Tales of marooned mariners helped Britain to see itself as a global power, A. W. Purdue hears

Emma Rees is happily lost in a Sixties’ soundscape but wonders why there are so few female artists

From Fox News to the race for the White House, this work is all about politics, says Sharon Wheeler

Christopher Phelps surveys a field that lends itself to interdisciplinarity, while a British scholar laments that UK institutions prefer Americans for Americanists

This survey covers the main trends in Holocaust studies but it would have benefited from a more international scope, says Neil Gregor

Fragmented images and light and shadow haunt a study of grief and memory, says Janet Sayers

Carla Hesse on a lively study examining the French thinker’s first intellectual passion