David Daiches
Obituary: Prolific scholar and teacher whose works showed his mastery of literary criticism, history and culture.
Salt of the earth
Peter Nichols enjoys Trevor Norton's Under Water to Get Out of the Rain, the memoirs of a marine biologist.
Naval gazing
As the 200th anniversary of Nelson's death approaches, Geoffrey Moorhouse sails through a fleet of books about the man and his time.
Too many bones, too little meat
In Karolyn Shindler's Discovering Dorothea, a pioneering fossil-hunter's heart remains hidden, says Kathryn Hughes.
Bobbing about in Cork
Seamus Sweeney on Patrick Cockburn's engaging memoir of a forgotten epidemic, The Broken Boy.
In defence of reason
Pankaj Mishra applauds Amartya Sen's cosmopolitan view of India's cultural and political history in The Argumentative Indian.
Fox on the loose
Peter Conradi finds Elias Canetti's recollections of Iris Murdoch in Party in the Blitz awash with bile, backstabbing and envy.
Philip Hobsbaum
Obituary: Poet and professor with a passion for new writing.
News Corp considers sale of TES
The publisher of the Times Educational Supplement yesterday confirmed that the 91-year-old title and its sister publication the Times Literary Supplement could be sold by their owner, News International, in a deal worth up to £280m.
Deperately funny
Graham Sharpe's The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch casts light on the demons of the man who made general elections enjoyable, says Simon Callow.
The Guardian University Guide 2006
Thinking of taking a degree, but not sure what subject to study, or where to study? Need help making the big decisions about higher education in the UK? The Guardian University Guide 2006, now fully revised and updated is packed with no nonsense advice and unique subject rankings, it contains everything you need to help you make the right choices.
A dream perverted
Fifty years ago, Nobel prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka formed a university society with his friends. This month, in a report for Channel 4 News, he returned to Nigeria to find his alma mater being exorcised - part of a national clampdown on the copycat 'cults' blamed for a series of campus atrocities. How has this come to pass?