Forgotten fiction
We are all familiar with Dickens, James Joyce, Henry James. But what about those authors who achieved huge commercial success when first published, wrote real literary gems, but 50 years later are forgotten?
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Left-handedness
Left-handedness is certainly an everyday phenomenon. We all probably know somebody who writes with their left hand or possibly do so ourselves. But how often do we pause to think about what might be the cause of such a preference…
MoreTrials and tribulations – war crimes tribunals
Mladen Ostojic explores the impact of international justice on post-conflict states that are undergoing a political transition. He asks whether international tribunals are a threat to stability in targeted countries – do justice and truth, or justice and peace, always go hand-in-hand?
MoreA philosophy of everyday things
In the last ten years the humanities has become obsessed with stuff – things, ephemera, paraphernalia and possessions. Writer and critic Brian Dillon speaks to Steven Connor, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, London, about the curious magic of everyday things.
MoreChanging contours of world order
Noam Chomsky is a world renowned linguist and one of America’s foremost social critics. He is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at M.I.T. He is the author of numerous books for Pluto Press, including Pirates and…
MoreGender violence in south Asia
Anupama Srinivasan argues that what we know about gender violence in South Asia – dowry harassment, domestic violence, acid attacks – is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Anupama is Programme Director at the Gender Violence Research…
MoreIn search of lost bees
Stephan Wolf and Dino McMahon use radar to track bee behaviour. By doing so, they hope to find out why bee populations have, in some parts of the world, gone into such rapid decline.
MoreChange ringing
The invention and reception of change ringing in seventeenth-century England…
MoreGenome Biology
The challenges of identifying disease genes using exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing.
MoreCultural hegemony vs. linguistic diversity
Speakers explore the merits, practicality and value of maintaining a multiplicity of languages at the University of Reading.
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