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In her review of An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners by Fiona Davison (October 6), Ysenda Maxtone Graham writes that 'The realities of domestic [...]

The passing mention of Norma Shearer as the star of The Divorcee in Lillian Crawford's review of two new works about Ursula Parrott brought to mind a 'what could have [...]

Richard Andrews's letter (August 11) concerning possible sources for The Tempest prompted me to return to the introduction in my New Hudson Shakespeare edition of the play (1909). Andrews suggests [...]

John Radford's stimulating article on psychology within higher education includes a paragraph on the context of psychology taught as a degree subject. He suggests that while statistics has an established presence on programmes and the discipline is increasingly informed by genetics, "approaches to human behaviour such as anthropology, history, geography, politics, sociology, are relatively rare" (2008, p. 43). Radford argues that when these disciplines do form components of psychology degrees they tend to be available as minor or ancillary subjects. These authors have no data on the frequency with which these "contextual" subjects are taught, or how they are included in programmes, but they would like to argue that psychology students should have opportunities to study other disciplines that have human behaviour as a primary concern. In doing so, the authors draw upon their experiences teaching psychology as a psychosocial science.

The use of digital media by adolescents living in out-of-home care raises safeguarding and risk-management concerns, creating challenges for practitioners in how to control risk while promoting independence. This article explores how professionals working in residential care negotiated their own and adolescents' use of ubiquitous digital phenomena. Extracts from everyday conversations occurring during a participatory research project working with adolescents and carers in four English residential care homes are discursively analyzed to demonstrate how professionals drew on socially available resources to construct digital media usage. Analysis demonstrates an orientation toward mobilizations of powerlessness as "accepted," the usefulness of constructing digital competency as a function of generation, and the need for professionals to "embrace" powerlessness. Adopting a position of "embraced powerlessness" accepts the inability to halt access and use of digital technologies. This position enabled workers to facilitate opportunities for digital resilience development in vulnerable adolescents.

In his illuminating essay on the relationship between E. M. Forster and Mattei Radev (June 16), Peter J. Conradi mentions Forster's unease with the twentieth century, which included an apparent [...]

I can't help thinking that Alan Sked is being a little selective when he proposes that Wordsworth looked positively on industrial progress (Letters, June 9). Sked includes Wordsworth's lines 'In [...]

In his review of Michael Winkler's Grimmish (April 28), Ian Sansom confronts the 'many critics' who have lauded the 'genre-bending' originality of the book. Sansom goes on to suggest that [...]

Camille Ralphs, in her review of Clare Bucknell's The Treasuries: Poetry anthologies and the making of British culture (April 28), mentions how Sydney Oswald's sentimental poem 'Dulce et Decorum est [...]

Mark Bostridge undoubtedly knows more about the Vera Brittain-Winifred Holtby relationship than I do (Letters, March 3). I do wonder, though, if, in his attempt to champion Brittain's contribution to [...]

As Ann Lawson Lucas tells us (Letters, February 10), translations can only ever be approximations, sometimes 'second best', sometimes simply 'different'. She goes on to tell us how Italo Calvino's [...]

For both practitioners and theorists, translanon is a crowded field, and Stephen Romer (January 13) is right to restrict his comments on Mark Polizzotti's new versions of Rimbaud to the [...]

Whether or not an English translation of Rimbaud can ever 'realize the beauty, strength and splendour' of the original is, for Sam Milne, to be discovered (Letters, January 20, and [...]

Some encyclopedias may well have done more than simply 'mirror the values of their times' (to quote James Waddell in his review of All the Knowledge in the World: The [...]

In his review of Jody Rosen's Two Wheels Good: The history and mystery of the bicycle (December 16), Jonathan Drummond quotes the activist Susan B. Anthony's remark (1896) that the [...]

In my letter about Winifred Holtby's South Riding (October 14), I implied that those finding Robert Carne's body actually lived at the Cold Harbour Colony. Although Carne's body was found [...]

With its talk of vacuums, empty spaces and holes, Rachel Fraser's review of Roy Sorensen's Nothing: A philosophical history (September 23) brought to mind a comment in Barbara Comyns's Sisters [...]