Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much is what he needed self-therapy…

A swashbuckling re-examination of a forgotten moment in British history by a richly talented young historian. Daily Telegraph

In The Feeling Intellect, Steven Groarke explores the overlap between psychoanalysis and philosophy in order to provide the first critical evaluation of the Independent tradition in British and American psychoanalysis.

Brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory emerging from ‘second wave’ feminism and assesses their impact on…

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics.

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a desire to work in the lost tradition of silent film. The production of Beckett’s…

The Battle of Marathon changed the course of history in ancient Greece. To many, the impossible seemed to have been achieved - the mighty Persian Empire halted in its advance…

2005 is the fortieth anniversary of Alphaville’s release. Chris Darke writes about how, working without sets, special effects, or even a script, Godard made a dystopian vision of a technocratic…