Stefan Collini

Stefan Collini teaches English at Cambridge. What Are Universities for? will be published in February.

In the LRB Archive:

• From Robbins to McKinsey: The Dismantling of the Universities · 25 August 2011

  • Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System

• What’s not to like?: Ernest Gellner · 2 June 2011

  • Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography by John Hall

• Browne’s Gamble: The Future of the Universities · 4 November 2010

  • Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education: An Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance by Lord Browne et al

• Memories of Frank Kermode · 23 September 2010

• On the Lower Slopes: Greene’s Luck · 5 August 2010

  • Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis

• Blahspeak: Aspiration etc… · 8 April 2010

  • Unleashing Aspiration: The Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions
  • British Social Attitudes: The 26th Report
  • An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK: Report of the National Equality Panel

• From the Motorcoach: J.B. Priestley · 19 November 2009

  • English Journey by J.B. Priestley

• Self-Positioning: the Movement · 25 June 2009

  • The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries edited by Zachary Leader

• Delighted to See Himself: Maurice Bowra · 12 February 2009

  • Maurice Bowra: A Life by Leslie Mitchell

• Upwards and Onwards: On Raymond Williams · 31 July 2008

  • Raymond Williams: A Warrior’s Tale by Dai Smith

• Hierophants: C. Day-Lewis · 6 September 2007

  • C. Day-Lewis: A Life by Peter Stanford

• Do you think he didn’t know?: Kingsley Amis · 14 December 2006

  • The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader

• Boomster and the Quack: How to Get on in the Literary World · 2 November 2006

  • Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 by Philip Waller

• Liquored-Up: Edmund Wilson · 17 November 2005

  • Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney

• Whigissimo: Herbert Butterfield · 21 July 2005

  • Herbert Butterfield: Historian as Dissenter by C.T. McIntire

• Our Island Story: The New DNB · 20 January 2005

  • The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison

• Life at the Pastry Board: V.S. Pritchett · 4 November 2004

  • V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life by Jeremy Treglown

• Stainless Splendour: How innocent was Stephen Spender? · 22 July 2004

  • Stephen Spender: The Authorised Biography by John Sutherland

• HiEdBiz: The Business of Higher Education · 6 November 2003

  • The Future of Higher Education

• ‘No Bullshit’ Bullshit: Christopher Hitchens, Englishman · 23 January 2003

  • Orwell's Victory by Christopher Hitchens

• The Cookson Story: The British Working Class · 13 December 2001

  • The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose

• Hegel in Green Wellies: England · 8 March 2001

  • England: An Elegy by Roger Scruton
  • The Faber Book of Landscape Poetry edited by Kenneth Baker

• An Abiding Sense of the Demonic: Arnold · 20 January 2000

  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. I: 1829-59 edited by Cecil Lang
  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. II: 1860-65 edited by Cecil Lang
  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. III: 1866-70 edited by Cecil Lang

• The Tell-Tale Trolley · 8 September 1994

  • Townscape with Figures: Farnham, Portrait of an English Town by Richard Hoggart

• Here’s to the high-minded · 7 April 1994

  • After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain edited by Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler

• Dream of the Seventh Dominion · 4 December 1980

  • Lewis Namier and Zionism by Norman Rose
  • Personal Impressions by Isaiah Berlin

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