For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Andrew Crumey

From the September 2023 Issue

An Electromagnetic Personality

Einstein in Time & Space: A Life in 99 Particles

By Samuel Graydon

From the August 2021 Issue

Slime & Reason

Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

By Carl Zimmer

From the April 2021 Issue

One Giant Leap for Mankind

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

By Stephen Walker

From the November 2020 Issue

Red but Not Dead

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

By Sarah Stewart Johnson

From the December 2019 Issue

Not Rocket Science

Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future

By Alice Gorman

From the July 2019 Issue

Space Oddities

The Moon: A History for the Future

By Oliver Morton

Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket

By Fraser MacDonald

From the May 2019 Issue

Fine Figures

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets

By Graham Farmelo

From the April 2018 Issue

More Naples Than Singapore

The Order of Time

By Carlo Rovelli (Translated by Simon Carnell & Erica Segre)

From the November 2016 Issue

Whither Woodville?

Wonders Will Never Cease

By Robert Irwin

From the October 2016 Issue

Relative Values

Einstein’s Greatest Mistake: A Biography

By David Bodanis

From the June 2016 Issue

Astronomical Expense

International Space Station: Architecture beyond Earth

By David Nixon

From the December 2015 Issue

In the Shadow of Mercury

The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe

By Thomas Levenson

From the July 2015 Issue

Don’t Get Sucked in…

Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved

By Marcia Bartusiak

From the April 2015 Issue

Go Forth & Multiply

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

By Cédric Villani (Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise)