Articles & Reviews
2013
- A Brief History of Nakedness, by Philip Carr-Gomm
Guardian, 16 March 2013
- Deception: Spies, Lies & How Russia Dupes the West, by Edward Lucas
Guardian, 16 February 2013
- Fear and Art in the Contemporary World, by Caterina Albano
Guardian, 9 February 2013
- Gustav Mahler, by Jens Malte Fischer
Guardian, 4 May 2013
- Invisible Romans, by Robert Knapp
Guardian, 16 February 2013
- Istanbul, ed by Heather Reyes
Guardian, 4 May 2013
- London: From Punk to Blair, ed by J Kerr
Guardian, 19 January 2013
- Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Jim Al-Khalili
Guardian, 12 January 2013
- The Best Science Writing Online, ed by Zivkovic and Ouellette
Guardian, 12 January 2013
- The Crime Fiction Handbook, by Peter Messent
Guardian, 9 March 2013
- The Honoured Society: My Journey to the Heart of the Mafia, by P Reski
Guardian, 20 April 2013
- The Joy of Secularism, ed by George Levine
Guardian, 16 March 2013
- Traces Remain, by Charles Nicholl
Guardian, 9 February 2013
- Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945, ed by O Lubrich
Guardian, 19 January 2013
- Watermark: An Essay on Venice, by Joseph Brodsky
Guardian, 23 March 2013
2012
- "Cynics and Monsters", Communion Town: A City in Ten Chapters, by Sam Thompson
Times Literary Supplement, 3 August 2012
- A Planet of Viruses, by Carl Zimmer
Guardian, 12 May 2012
- About Time, by Adam Frank
Guardian, 19 May 2012
- Atomic Obsession, by John Mueller
Guardian, 5 May 2012
- Blade Runner, by Scott Bukatman
Guardian, 1 September 2012
- British Crime Film, by Barry Forshaw
Guardian, 10 November 2012
- Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel, by Brian Clegg
Times Literary Supplement, 18 May 2012
- City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire, by Roger Crowley
Guardian, 28 July 2012
- Dada in Paris, by Michel Sanouillet
Guardian, 20 October 2012
- Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, by B Forshaw
Guardian, 3 March 2012
- Evocative Objects, ed by Sherry Turkle
Guardian, 6 January 2012
- Geek Nation, by Angela Saini
Guardian, 31 January 2012
- Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, by Kurt W Beyer
Guardian, 26 May 2012
- London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction, by Michael Moorcock
Guardian, 14 April 2012
- Losing the Head of Philip K Dick, by D Dufty
Guardian, 31 March 2012
- Lost World, England 1933-1936, by Dorothy Hartley
Guardian, 27 October 2012
- Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov – A Life in Letters & Diaries, by JAE Curtis
Guardian, 11 August 2012
- Mediterranean Seafood, by Alan Davidson
Guardian, 8 September 2012
- My Inventions and Other Writings, by Nikola Tesla
Guardian, 27 October 2012
- Olympia, by Taylor Downing
Guardian, 28 April 2012
- Paris, by Julian Green
Guardian, 28 July 2012
- Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ed by Nicholas Joll
Guardian, 8 September 2012
- Philosophy Bites, by D Edmonds and N Warburton
Guardian, 24 January 2012
- Physics of the Future, by Michio Kaku
Guardian, 31 March 2012
- Poetry and the Police, by Robert Darnton
Guardian, 1 December 2012
- Science on Stage, by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Guardian, 20 October 2012
- Self-Portrait, by Man Ray
Guardian, 16 June 2012
- St Petersburg, ed by Heather Reyes
Guardian, 24November 2012
- Stieg and Me: Memories of My Life with Stieg Larsson, by Eva Gabrielsson
Guardian, 11 August 2012
- Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, by Taras Grescoe
Guardian, 8 September 2012
- Taxi Driver, by Amy Taubin
Guardian, 1 September 2012
- The Art of Immersion, by Frank Rose
Guardian, 14 July 2012
- The Beginning of Infinity, by David Deutsch
Guardian, 7 February 2012
- The English Lakes: A History, by Ian Thompson
Guardian, 23 June 2012
- The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon, by Leo Braudy
Guardian, 28 April 2012
- The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town, by T. Longstaffe-Gowan
Guardian, 19 May 2012
- The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town, by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
Guardian, 18 May 2012
- The Planet in a Pebble, by Jan Zalasiewicz
Guardian, 16 June 2012
- The Puzzle of Left-handedness, by Rik Smits
Guardian, 29 September 2012
- The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, by D Yergin
Guardian, 10 November 2012
- The Rise of Nuclear Fear, by Spencer R Weart
Guardian, 7 April 2012
- The Scramble for China, by Robert Bickers
Guardian, 17 March 2012
- The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, by Andrew Feinstein
Guardian, 1 December 2012
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S Kuhn
Guardian, 7 July 2012
- ThermoPoetics, by Barri J Gold
Guardian, 24 March 2012
- Tripe, by Marjory Houlihan
Guardian, 17 January 2012
- Triumph of the City, by Edward Glaeser
Guardian, 3 March 2012
- What a Plant Knows, by Daniel Chamovitz
Guardian, 23 June 2012
- When London Was the Capital of America, by Julie Flavell
Guardian, 17 January 2012
2011
- "Big Smokes", Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, ed by Ray Hutchison
Times Literary Supplement, 4 February 2011
- "Enchanted Ground", Vauxhall Gardens: A History, by David Coke and Alan Borg
Guardian, 22 July 2011
- "Survival of the Swiftest", Aerotropolis, by J. Kasarda & G. Lindsay; The New North, by L. Smith
Guardian, 19 March 2011
- 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism, by H-J Chang
Guardian, 8 October 2011
- A Book of Migrations, by Rebecca Solnit
Guardian, 8 October 2011
- A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, by O Hatherley
Guardian, 15 July 2011
- A Little Book of Language, by David Crystal
Guardian, 23 April 2011
- A Reader on Reading, by Alberto Manguel
Guardian, 30 July 2011
- Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews & Digital Rants, 2006-2009, by Ai Weiwei
Guardian, 9 April 2011
- Ancient Worlds: The Search for the Origins of Western Civilization, by R Miles
Guardian, 24 September 2011
- Aristocracy, by William Doyle
Guardian, 8 January 2011
- Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life, by Michael Greenberg
Guardian, 12 February 2011
- City Boy, by Edmund White
Guardian, 29 January 2011
- Cuisine & Culture: A History of Food & People, by Linda Civitello
Guardian, 23 April 2011
- Cured, Fermented and Smoked Foods, ed by Helen Saberi
Guardian, 12 August 2011
- Dinosaur in a Haystack, by Stephen Jay Gould
Guardian, 19 November 2011
- Fragments from 'The Life of Luxury', by Archestratus
Guardian, 12 August 2011
- Genius: A Very Short Introduction, by Andrew Robinson
Guardian, 12 March 2011
- Ghetto at the Center of the World, by Gordon Mathews
Times Literary Supplement, 18 November 2011
- Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry, by Vincent Kaufmann
Times Literary Supplement, 29 April 2011
- Hermit in Paris, by Italo Calvino
Guardian, 26 March 2011
- How Many Friends Does One Person Need?, by Robin Dunbar
Guardian, 26 February 2011
- Invented Knowledge, by Ronald H Fritze
Guardian, 12 March 2011
- Koestler, by Michael Scammell
Guardian, 12 February 2011
- Literature and Science, by Charlotte Sleigh
Guardian, 15 January 2011
- Mao’s Great Famine, by Frank Dikötter
Guardian, 7 May 2011
- Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle, by Ian Sample
Guardian, 26 February 2011
- MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, by K Jeffery
Guardian, 18 June 2011
- Murder City, by Charles Bowden
Guardian, 4 June 2011
- My Father's Fortune, by Michael Frayn
Guardian, 10 September 2011
- Naked City: The Death & Life of Authentic Urban Places, by Sharon Zukin
Guardian, 21 May 2011
- New York, ed by Heather Reyes
Guardian, 29 November 2011
- On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, by S Asthma
Guardian, 22 October 2011
- Our Hero: Superman on Earth, by Tom De Haven
Guardian, 1 July 2011
- Pashas, by James Mather
Guardian, 4 June 2011
- Perfect Rigour, by Masha Gessen
Guardian, 29 October 2011
- Reveries of the Solitary Walker, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Guardian, 15 July 2011
- Science Fiction, by David Seed
Guardian, 1 July 2011
- Sentient City, ed by Mark Shephard
Icon, September 2011
- St Pancras Station, by Simon Bradley
Guardian, 9 April 2011
- Strong Opinions, by Vladimir Nabokov
Guardian, 26 March 2011
- The Arsenic Century, by J Whorton
Guardian, 26 August 2011
- The Fish on Your Plate, by Paul Greenberg
Guardian, 24 September 2011
- The Invention of Paris, by Eric Hazan
Guardian, 21 May 2011
- The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise & Fall of the World's Languages, by N Ostler
Guardian, 5 November 2011
- The Making of London, by Sebastian Groes
Guardian, 29 November 2011
- The Man Who Recorded the World, by John Szwed
Guardian, 10 September 2011
- The Ocean at Home, by Bernd Brunner
Guardian, 26 August 2011
- The Social Life of Coffee, by Brian Cowan
Guardian, 7 May 2011
- The Trouble with City Planning, by K Ford
Guardian, 12 November 2011
- The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies, by G Anastasia & G Macnow
Guardian, 20 October 2011
- The Wagon and Other Stories from the City, by Martin Preib
Guardian, 17 June 2011
- Wine: A Cultural History, by John Varriano
Guardian, 29 January 2011
2010
- "Boulevards of Dreams": Restless Cities, by Matthew Beaumont & Gregory Dart
Guardian, 26 June 2010
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Peter Krämer
Guardian, 28 August 2010
- Alternative Medicine?, by Roberta Bivins
Guardian, 14 August 2010
- America, by Jean Baudrillard
Guardian, 23 October 2010
- Amsterdam, ed by H Reyes & V Schiferli
Guardian, 5 June 2010
- An Orchard Invisible, by J Silvertown
Guardian, 25 September 2010
- Au Revoir to All That, by Michael Steinberger
Guardian, 17 July 2010
- Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Writings, ed by J Secord
Guardian, 5 June 2010
- Climate Refugees, by Collectif Argos
Guardian, 8 May 2010
- Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles, by Paul Halpern
Guardian, 27 November 2010
- Colossus, ed by B Jack Copeland
Guardian, 24 April 2010
- Damascus: Taste of a City, by R Schami & M Fadel
Guardian, 14 August 2010
- Dancing in the Dark, by Morris Dickstein
Guardian, 9 October 2010
- Darwin's Sacred Cause, by A Desmond & J Moore
Guardian, 16 January 2010
- Dubai: Gilded Cage, by Syed Ali
Guardian, 10 April 2010
- Eadweard Muybridge, by Marta Braun
Guardian, 11 December 2010
- Einstein and Oppenheimer, by Silvan Schweber
Guardian, 16 January 2010
- Food Politics, by Robert Paarlberg
Guardian, 17 July 2010
- Fresh: A Perishable History, by S Freidberg
Guardian, 6 November 2010
- Have You Seen..?, by David Thomson
Guardian, 13 March 2010
- In Defence of the Enlightenment, by T Todorov
Guardian, 6 November 2010
- Justice, by Michael Sandel
Guardian, 27 March 2010
- Map Addict, by Mike Parker
Guardian, 15 May 2010
- Mind the Gap, by Ferdinand Mount
Guardian, 6 March 2010
- Newton & the Counterfeiter, by Thomas Levenson
Guardian, 11 September 2010
- On London, by Charles Dickens
Guardian, 23 October 2010
- On Rumours, by Cass Sunstein
Guardian, 9 October 2010
- Portrait of the Gulf Stream, by E Orsenna
Guardian, 25 September 2010
- Sand: A Journey Through Science & the Imagination, by M Welland
Guardian, 22 May 2010
- Seeing Further: The Story of Science & the Royal Society, ed by Bill Bryson
Independent, 22 January 2010
- The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton
Guardian, 3 July 2010
- The Best Technology Writing 2010, ed by Julian Dibbell
Guardian, 20 November 2010
- The Case for Books, by Robert Darnton
Guardian, 28 August 2010
- The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life, by P Seabright
Guardian, 22 May 2010
- The Decisive Moment, by Jonah Lehrer
Guardian, 20 February 2010
- The Parthenon, by Mary Beard
Guardian, 3 July 2010
- The Protestor's Handbook, by Bibi van der Zee
Guardian, 24 April 2010
- The Secret State, by Peter Hennessy
Guardian, 31 July 2010
- The Situationists & the City, ed by Tom McDonough
Guardian, 27 February 2010
- The Spirit Level, by R Wilkinson & K Pickett
Guardian, 30 January 2010
- Thousand Mile Song, by David Rothenberg
Guardian, 10 April 2010
- Titian: The Last Days, by Mark Hudson
Guardian, 11 September 2010
- Tormented Hope: 9 Hypochondriac Lives, by B Dillon
Guardian, 19 June 2010
- Travels: Collected Writings, by Paul Bowles
Guardian, 19 June 2010
- Two Billion Cars, by D Sperling & D Gordon
Guardian, 31 July 2010
- Venice, ed by Heather Reyes
Guardian, 4 December 2010
- When the Lights Went Out: What Really Happened to Britain in the 70s, by A Beckett
Guardian, 30 January 2010
2009
- “Two legs good, four legs better, six legs brilliant”: Pavlov’s Dogs and Schrödinger’s Cat, by Rom Harré; The Lives of Ants, by Laurent Keller & É Gordon; Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, by Jeffrey A Lockwood
Guardian, 28 March 2009
- "W, X and O: The Wonder of Woolworth": The Skyscraper & the City, by G Fenske; Invented Edens, by R Kargon & A Molella; Another City, by D Upton
Times Literary Supplement, 28 January 2009
- American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and M Sherwin
Guardian, 14 February 2009
- Architectures of the Near Future, ed Nic Clear
Guardian, 21 November 2009
- Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre
Guardian, 9 May 2009
- Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Ed by J Prucher
Guardian, 23 May 2009
- Delirious New Orleans, by Stephen Verderber
Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 2009
- Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature, by Fred Gray
Guardian, 28 March 2009
- European Cities and Towns: 400-2000, by Peter Clark
Guardian, 14 March 2009
- Forgotten Fruits: The Stories behind Britain's Traditional Fruit & Vegetables, by C Stocks
Guardian, 6 June 2009
- Gang Leader for a Day, by Sudhir Venkatesh
Guardian, 31 January 2009
- Hatfield’s Herbal: The Curious Stories of Britain’s Wild Plants, by Gabrielle Hatfield
Guardian, 25 April 2009
- Leviathan or, The Whale, by Philip Hoare
Times Literary Supplement, July 10, 2009
- Militant Modernism, by Owen Hatherley
Guardian, 9 May 2009
- Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, by Marc Augé
Guardian, 28 March 2009
- Obelisk: A History, by Brian A Curran, A Grafton, P O Long & B Weiss
Guardian, 25 April 2009
- Photography and Literature, by François Brunet
Guardian, 18 July 2009
- Rebooting Britain: Tax people back into the cities, by PD Smith
Wired UK, 30 November 2009
- Seasons of Life, by R Foster & L Kreitzman
Guardian, 8 August 2009
- Space, Time and Architecture, by Sigfried Giedion
Guardian, 17 January 2009
- State of the World 2009, ed by Linda Starke
Guardian, 28 February 2009
- Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am Edited, by W Irwin et al
Guardian, 23 May 2009
- The Big Necessity, by Rose George
Guardian, 1 August 2009
- The BLDGBLOG Book, by Geoff Manaugh
Guardian, 4 July 2009
- The British Cinema Book, Ed by Robert Murphy
Guardian, 11 April 2009
- The Ethical Travel Guide, by Polly Pattullo
Guardian, 4 July 2009
- The Grid Book, by Hannah Higgins
Guardian, 14 March 2009
- The Hamburger, by Josh Ozersky
Guardian, 6 June 2009
- The Kingdom of Infinite Space, by Ray Tallis
Guardian, 14 February 2009
- The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, ed by Robin Lenman
Guardian, 17 January 2009
- The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess, by Andrei Codrescu
Guardian, 11 April 2009
- The Telephone Gambit, by Seth Shulman
Guardian, 28 February 2009
- Venice is a Fish, by Tiziano Scarpa
Guardian, 18 July 2009
- Where the Stress Falls, by Susan Sontag
Guardian, 1 August 2009
- Your Inner Fish, by Neil Shubin
Guardian, 31 January 2009
2008
- “Bombs away”, A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry, by N Hodge & S Weinberger
Guardian, August 16, 2008
- “Look and learn”, Proust and the Squid, by Maryanne Wolf
Guardian, April 12, 2008
- “Murder, he wrote”, The Father of Forensics, by Colin Evans
Guardian, April 19, 2008
- “Shish-kebab with a spud”, Chambers Dictionary of Science and Technology
Times Literary Supplement, August 15, 2008
- “Skeletal Support”, The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought, by Robert J. Richards
Times Literary Supplement, July 25, 2008
- 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London, by R Ashton; Sex & the Psyche: The Truth About Our Most Secret Fantasies, by B Kahr
Guardian, February 2, 2008
- A Philosophy of Fear, by Lars Svendsen
Guardian, October 25, 2008
- Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, by Richard Rhodes
Guardian, 20 December 2008
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science, by M Roach; Skin: A Natural History, by N Jablonski
Guardian, May 24, 2008
- China: A-Z, by Kai Strittmatter; Modern China: A Very Short Introduction, by Rana Mitter
Guardian, March 15, 2008
- Citrus: A History, by Pierre Laszlo
Guardian, September 27, 2008
- Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity, by Virginia Smith
Guardian, August 2 2008
- Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology, by J North
Guardian, August 16, 2008
- Crow Country: A Meditation on Birds, Landscape & Nature, by M Cocker
Guardian, September 13, 2008
- Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City, by L Day; A Perfect Mess, by E Abrahamson & D Freedman
Guardian, January 19, 2008
- Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television, by Timothy Boon
Times Literary Supplement, July 18, 2008
- Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea, by C Garwood; Notebooks, by Leonardo da Vinci
Guardian, June 7, 2008
- H.G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies, by K Williams; Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World, by S Perkowitz
Times Literary Supplement, June 6, 2008
- Interventions, by Noam Chomsky
Guardian, August 30, 2008
- Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor, by Hervé This
Guardian, September 27, 2008
- Off the Page, ed by Carole Burns; China: Empire of Living Symbols, by C Lindqvist
Guardian, July 5, 2008
- On Brick Lane, by Rachel Lichtenstein
Guardian, August 30, 2008
- Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, by L Brown; The Music of Life, by Denis Noble
Guardian, February 16, 2008
- Reading Comics : How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, by Douglas Wolk
Guardian, August 2 2008
- Star Trek, by Ina Rae Hark
Guardian, October 11, 2008
- The American Dream, by Harmon Leon
Guardian, October 25, 2008
- The Black Swan, by Nassim Taleb; Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, by J Rosenthal
Guardian, March 1, 2008
- The Canon: The beautiful basics of science, by Natalie Angier
Independent, 31 March 2008
- The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth’s History, by D Beerling
Guardian, 6 December 2008
- The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works, ed by Stephen Hawking
Guardian, November 22, 2008
- The Firecracker Boys, by Dan O’Neill; The Transition Handbook, by Rob Hopkins
Guardian, March 29, 2008
- The Great Railway Bazaar, by Paul Theroux; The Archimedes Codex, by R Netz and W Noel
Guardian, April 12, 2008
- The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against Aids, by H Epstein; Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure, by A Gordon
Guardian, July 19, 2008
- The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution, by D Harkness
Guardian, 20 December 2008
- The Mountains of California, by John Muir
Guardian, 6 December 2008
- The Spaces of the Modern City, ed by G Prakash & K Kruse; Consumed, by B Barber
Guardian, May 10, 2008
- The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life, by Richard Sennett
Guardian, 13 December 2008
- To Follow the Water: Exploring the Sea to Discover Climate, by D Murphy
Guardian, August 16, 2008
- Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age, by A Goldgar
Guardian, October 11, 2008
- Utopian Dreams, by Tobias Jones; After Atheism, by Mark Vernon
Guardian, January 5, 2008
- When Languages Die, by K David Harrison
Guardian, September 13, 2008
- When Life Nearly Died, by M J Benton; Mind, Life and Universe, ed by L Margulis & E Punset
Guardian, April 26, 2008
- Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life, by Götz Hoeppe
Times Literary Supplement, January 25, 2008
- Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees, by R Deakin; The Meaning of Life, by Terry Eagleton
Guardian, June 21, 2008
2007
- “A plague on all our houses”, Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History, by Dorothy Crawford
Guardian, December 8, 2007
- “Ambassadors of the soul”, The Eye: A Natural History, by Simon Ings; Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture, by Stuart Clark
Guardian, 2 June 2007
- “Beep beep beep”, Red Moon Rising, by Matthew Brzezinski; Iron Curtain, by Patrick Wright
Guardian, November 17, 2007
- “Culture clash”, Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism, by Erhard Bahr
Times Literary Supplement, August 17, 2007
- “Masters of rock”, Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet, by Ted Nield
Guardian, October 6, 2007
- “Reluctant polymath”, The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Andrew Robinson
Guardian, 20 January 2007
- “The man beneath the electrified halo of hair”, Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
Guardian, August 25, 2007
- “You can understand quantum mechanics!”, The Universe: A Biography, by John Gribbin
Independent, 29 March 2007
- Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty, by James Buchan; Sky in a Bottle, by Peter Pesic
Guardian, May 12, 2007
- Book of a Lifetime – Franz Kafka’s “Josephine the Singer”
Independent, June 22, 2007
- Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, by William Bryant Logan; Earthquakes in Human History, by de Boer & Sanders
Guardian, 17 March 2007
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe, by Elizabeth Kolbert; Climate Change, ed by JFC DiMento and P Doughman
Guardian, September 15, 2007
- Garden Natural History, by Stefan Buczacki; Rise and Shine: Sunlight, Technology and Health, by Simon Carter
Guardian, June 9, 2007
- Hollow Earth, by David Standish; The Mercurial Emperor, by Peter Marshall
Guardian, September 1, 2007
- Homo Britannicus, by Chris Stringer; The Man Who Ran the Moon, by Piers Bizony
Guardian, July 21, 2007
- JD Bernal, by Andrew Brown; A World Without Time, by Palle Yourgrau
Guardian, April 28, 2007
- Letters to a Young Mathematician, by I Stewart; In Search of Memory, by E Kandel
Guardian, 26 May 2007
- Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, by Jenny Uglow; iWoz, by Steve Wozniak
- Plows, Plagues and Petroleum, by W F Ruddiman; City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish, by Peter Parsons
Guardian, December 22, 2007
- Seven Tenths, by James Hamilton-Paterson; Seed to Seed, by Nicholas Harberd
Guardian, April 14, 2007
- Spying on the Bomb, by Jeffrey T Richelson; Battlefield: Decisive Conflicts in History, ed by Richard Holmes
Guardian, October 27, 2007
- Suffer and Survive: The Extreme Life of J. S Haldane, by Martin Goodman
Times, August 4, 2007
- The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings, by L Kalof; In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist, by SS Schweber
Guardian, 31 March 2007
- The Grand Contraption, by David Park; The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide, by A Hart-Davis and P Bader
Guardian, July 7, 2007
- The History of Science Fiction, by Adam Roberts; When Computers Were Human, by David Alan Grier
Guardian, November 10, 2007
- The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change, by Fred Pearce; Water Under Threat, by Larbi Bouguerra
Guardian, 6 Jan 2007
- The Life and Death of Planet Earth, by Ward & Brownlee; What Is Your Dangerous Idea?, ed by John Brockman
Guardian, 4 August 2007
- The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism, by Dick Taverne; In the Heart of the Amazon Forest, by Walter Henry Bates
Guardian, 17 Feb 2007
- The Portable Atheist, ed by Christopher Hitchens; Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates, by D. Wootton
Guardian, December 8, 2007
- The Revenge of Gaia, by James Lovelock; Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, by Stephen Jay Gould
Guardian, 3 March 2007
- Under the Sea-Wind, by Rachel Carson; The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, by EO Wilson
Guardian, October 13, 2007
- What Makes Us Human?, ed by Charles Pasternak; Taking the Proverbial, by Geoff Rolls
Guardian, November 24, 2007
- What’s Science Ever Done for Us?, by Paul Halpern; Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939, by G. de Syon
Guardian, August 18, 2007
2006
- “A glass of wine and a bullet to bite”, The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain, by Thomas Dormandy
Guardian, 19 August 2006
- “Change or die”, Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, by George Monbiot
Guardian, 30 September 2006
- “Gravity eclipsed”, Einstein’s Jury: The race to test relativity, by Jeffrey Crelinsten
Times Literary Supplement, July 21, 2006
- “Intriguing yet uneasy amalgam into ‘the greatest of all human adventures’ “, The Beginner’s Guide To Winning The Nobel Prize, by Peter Doherty
Independent, 06 July 2006
- “Life for this cloning pioneer won’t be the same again”, After Dolly, by Ian Wilmut and Roger Highfield
Independent, 08 August 2006
- “Our sneezing, wheezing plague”, Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady by Mark Jackson (Reaktion)
Guardian, July 29, 2006
- “The fire in Lonesome George’s loins”, Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon, by Henry Nicholls
Guardian, 13 May 2006
- “The hidden assassin”, One in Three: A Son’s Journey into the History and Science of Cancer, by Adam Wishart
Guardian, 9 September 2006
- “The ragged-trousered alchemist”, The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science, by Philip Ball
Guardian, 28 January 2006
- “The secret of life with a pint of bitter”, Francis Crick, by Matt Ridley
Independent, 22 September 2006
- “Who cares when the rockets come down?”, Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema, by Christopher Frayling
Guardian, 25 February 2006
- Conversations on Consciousness, by Susan Blackmore; The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, by Elisabeth A Lloyd
Guardian, 9 December 2006
- Sky in a Bottle, by Peter Pesic
Times Literary Supplement, August 4, 2006
- The End of the World: From Revelation to Eco-Disaster, by S Pearson; The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists Are Taking a Leaf From Nature’s Book, by P Forbes
Guardian, 2 September 2006
- The Evolution-Creation Struggle, by Michael Ruse; Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life, by Nick Lane
Guardian, 23 December 2006
- The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, by Bynum & Porter; The Google Story, by David Vise
Guardian, 30 September 2006
- What We Believe But Cannot Prove, ed by John Brockman; Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens, by Deborah Cadbury
Guardian, 19 August 2006
2005
- “Heart of the atom”, The Fly in the Cathedral: How a small group of Cambridge scientists won the race to split the atom, by Brian Cathcart
Times Literary Supplement, 4 February 2005
- “The cutting edge”, The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery, by Wendy Moore
Guardian, 12 March 2005
- “The genius of space and time”, the best books of the 2005 Einstein Year
Guardian, 17 September 2005
- “Time lords”, Transformations, by Mike Ashley
Guardian, 30 April 2005
- “Time, space and problem hair”, exhibition: Albert Einstein: Man of the Century, The Jewish Museum, London
Times Literary Supplement, 11 November 2005
2004
- “Before the flood”, Forty Signs of Rain, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Guardian, 17 January 2004
- “Eureka!”, Leaps in the Dark: The Making of Scientific Reputations, by John Waller
Guardian, 11 December 2004
- “Here be monsters”, White Devils, by Paul McAuley
Guardian, 21 February 2004
- “How a child becomes a scientist”, When We Were Kids, ed by John Brockman
Independent, 06 December 2004
- “In the ditch”, Literature and Science, 1660–1834, ed by Judith Hawley
Times Literary Supplement, 6 August 2004
- “Mind map”, Mind Wide Open: One Man’s Journey into the Workings of His Brain, by Steven Johnson
Guardian, 15 May 2004
- “On reflection …”, Mirror, Mirror: A History of the Human Love Affair with Reflection, by Mark Pendergrast
Guardian, 27 March 2004
- “Tasty tale of the tortoise”, A Sheltered Life: The Unexpected History of the Giant Tortoise, by Paul Chambers
Guardian, 31 July 2004
- "Try as we might, we can't cheat time", Rhythms of Life, by R Foster & L Kreitzman
Independent, 6 April 2004
- In Albert’s Shadow: The life and letters of Mileva Maric, Einstein’s first wife, by Milan Popovic
Times Literary Supplement, January 16, 2004
- Science, reading, and renaissance literature: The art of making knowledge, by Elizabeth Spiller
Times Literary Supplement, September 3, 2004
2003
- “Blood ties”, Pointing From the Grave: A True Story of Murder and DNA, by Samantha Weinberg
Guardian, 1 March 2003
- “Fear factory”, How to Build a Nuclear Bomb and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Frank Barnaby
Guardian, 11 October 2003
- “Lichens and other likenings”, The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, his Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History, by David Freedberg
Guardian, 1 February 2003
- “Nature’s revenge”, Darwin’s Children by Greg Bear
Guardian, 26 July 2003
- “Relativity was not just Einstein’s monster”, Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps, by Peter Galison
Independent, 20 September 2003
- “Where did it all go right? 2004 will be dominated by the big questions, says PD Smith”
Guardian, 27 December 2003
- “Wrestling with devils”, Hitler’s Scientists: Science, War and the Devil’s Pact, by John Cornwell
Guardian, 1 November 2003
2002
- “Back at the lab”, Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller; The Eureka! Moment: 100 Key Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century by Rupert Lee
Guardian, 12 October 2002
- “Beautiful minds”, It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, ed by Graham Farmelo
Guardian, 16 March 2002
- “Best wear a good thick skirt”, Landscape, Nature, & the Body Politic by K Olwig; The Politics of Nature by N Roe; Romanticism & the Materiality of Nature by O Oerlemans; In Nature’s Name, ed B Gates
Guardian, 22 June 2002
- “Darwinism in a flutter”, Of Moths and Men: Intrigue, Tragedy & the Peppered Moth, by Judith Hooper
Guardian, 11 May 2002
- “Keeping Mother Nature in the family”, Chance in the House of Fate: a natural history of heredity, by Jennifer Ackerman
Independent, 25 January 2002
- “Nor am I out of it”, Die Vertreibung aus der Holle, by Robert Menasse
Times Literary Supplement, March 22, 2002
- “The shadow of the beast”, Evolution by Stephen Baxter
Guardian, 21 December 2002
- “Why physics can be fun,” Science: A History, 1543-2001, by John Gribbin
Guardian, 21 September 2002
- “With fame I become more stupid”, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 7, The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921, ed Michel Janssen, et al
Guardian, 31 August 2002
- The One Culture? A conversation about science, ed by Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins
Times Literary Supplement, July 26, 2002
2001
- “Gene pool”, Emma Darwin: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius by Edna Healey and Annie’s Box by Randal Keynes
Guardian, 15 December 2001
- “Man behaving (relatively) badly”, Einstein in Love: a scientific romance, by Dennis Overbye
Independent, 01 June 2001
- “Saying the world”, Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German Writing, by Michael André Bernstein
Times Literary Supplement, January 12, 2001
- “The uses of enchantment”, Literature and the Gods, by Roberto Calasso
Financial Times, August 11, 2001
- “The wingbeat of the unknown”, Grammars of Creation, by George Steiner
Times Literary Supplement, April 6, 2001
- "Journals: Literature", Publications of the English Goethe Society
Times Literary Supplement, March 23, 2001
- Hampels Fluchten, by Michael Kumpfmuller
Times Literary Supplement, June 1, 2001
2000
- “An impossible journey?”, Rosa, by Thomas Harlan
Times Literary Supplement, October 13, 2000
- “Elective Affinity: A Tale of Two Cultures?”
Prometheus 04 (2000), 46-65
- "Fiction of the fatal kind", Agnes, by Peter Stamm. Translated by Michael Hofmann
Times Literary Supplement, April 21, 2001
- ‘Science and the City: Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz’
London Magazine, April/May 2000
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