While Rancière's political writings have been central to his reception among English-language readers, over the last decade his work has almost completely focused on aesthetics. "Aisthesis" comes as the culmination of such efforts.

The Atlas of Epidemic Britain is a carefully researched, beautifully illustrated, encyclopedic treatment of the incidence of endemic and epidemic diseases in Great Britain in the twentieth century. The result is one of those very occasionally invaluable references that sit on the shelf until needed.

Is it possible to conceive of Geography as romantic? Is there a need for a ‘romantic geography’? These are the principal questions underpinning Yi-Fu Tuan’s most recent book, "Romantic Geography: In Search of the Sublime Landscape", in which he responds in the affirmative.

At one level, the demand for linking academic scholarship more directly to wider social, political and economic concerns is welcome. It does not make sense for scholarship, especially in the social sciences and humanities, to be disconnected from what is going on outside of academia. However, in this commentary we would like to reflect on some concerns about the way in which impact is being conceptualised and pursued in the contemporary academic climate.

In this interview Grosz discusses her new book about questions of ontology and ethics, which draws on the philosophies of the Stoics, Spinoza, Nietzsche to address materialist idealism.