Reviews
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Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith
A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.
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Book review: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The History of Life’ by Michael J Benton
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Ice Age’ by Jamie Woodward
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Sense of Style’ by Steven Pinker
The thinking person’s guide to writing in the 21st century.
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Book review: ‘Rain’ by Melissa Harrison
Four walks in English weather.
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Book review: ‘The Edge of the World’ by Michael Pye
How the North Sea made us who we are.
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Book review: ‘At Hawthorn Time’ by Melissa Harrison
An extraordinary modern rural novel.
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Book review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
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Book review: ‘The Outrun’ by Amy Liptrot
Recovering from addiction in the far north.
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Book review: ‘The Invention of Science’ by David Wootton
A new history of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton.