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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

Nicholas Till on what it means to be moved by a piece of art after 30 years of critical practice

Richard J. Williams on how big data may transform how we live, travel and work in our towns

Thesis explores thumb-biting, ‘Spanish figs’ and other rude Elizabethan gestures

Book of the week: Deborah Longworth meanders with female writer-walkers getting their measure of the metropolis

Seeking a deep conversation between Scripture and the Bard’s works is a fool’s errand, argues Peter J. Smith

The fields have been far too shy in leaping to their own defence, argues paper

Academics working in English studies consider what Brexit means for their discipline

Dana Ruggiero on new ways of thinking about how to construct gaming experiences that allow people to help tackle intractable challenges

Explaining how skilled individuals deliver a peak performance is a thorny task, Jane O’Grady says

Book of the week: Fred Inglis delights in a grafting of art, lore and literature that logs our lives with natural wonders

This study reminds us of the radicalism of bringing the quotidian into art, writes Shahidha Bari

R. J. B. Bosworth traces the state’s long involvement in the production and sale of tobacco to its citizens

Martin Cohen on a philosophical study that eschews the root for the rhizome

Stefania Milan on the socio-legal complexities of digital redemption and digital reinvention

Grace Lees-Maffei on an effort to illuminate ‘the soul’ in design that highlights the potential of interdisciplinary encounters

Surviving a traumatic event isn’t a prerequisite for making great artworks, says K. E. Gover

Howard Segal on an optimistic visionary who never quite achieved the utopian communities he envisioned

As we continually wait for the next big thing, we are doomed to disappointment, finds Tara Brabazon

Jonathan Mirsky considers an exploration of the dynamics between two ancient rival nations

Book of the week: Meet the human computers in heels who juggled science and family, says Margaret A. Weitekamp

David Gewanter on a poet’s turning his telltale gaze to works of verse and makers of muddled readings and purveyors of ‘balonium’

Projecting their hopes and fears on to Israel has polarised Jews in the US, says William Kolbrener

Book of the week: Randy Malamud on two scholars’ exploration of a temple of Christian fundamentalist belief

Kaarina Hollo on a study comparing medieval manuscripts with evidence on the ground to illuminate life in Iron Age Ireland

A study confronts the theme of mortality during the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s passing

A literature module developed at Brunel University London has moved away from the traditional essay format and embraced the digital age

David Mayall reflects on the ‘war on humanities’, Brexit and graduate employability

Well-researched portraits of female pioneers and game gals capture the buzz around the Beeb as women entered the professions, says Sharon Wheeler

Moyra Haslett on what the Irish diaspora in mid-18th-century London reveals about the life and politics of one literary figure

Researchers in the liberal arts seem to have made it their mission to communicate in the most obscure fashion, says Zachary Foster

A study probing the state of a discipline raises the alarm on scholars selling out, says Martin Cohen