December 2023 Issue
Andrew Crumey
Red Planet & Brown Trout
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
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November 2023 Issue
David Edgerton
Human Says No
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
By Robert Skidelsky
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October 2023 Issue
Tim Hornyak
We Know Who You Are
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy
By Kashmir Hill
October 2023 Issue
Martin Vander Weyer
Man Who Fell to Earth
Elon Musk
By Walter Isaacson
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September 2023 Issue
Blake Smith
Cyborgs Old & New
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
By David Runciman
May 2023 Issue
Caspar Henderson
Is It a Bird? Is It an eVTOL?
Flying Green: On the Frontiers of New Aviation
By Christopher de Bellaigue
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May 2023 Issue
Patricia Fara
Misogyny under the Microscope
Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science
By Athene Donald
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
By Kate Zernike
LR
April 2023 Issue
Charles Foster
Stop All the Clocks
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
By Richard Fisher
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April 2023 Issue
Dan Saladino
Fork in the Road
Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet into Shape
By Henry Dimbleby with Jemima Lewis
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food… and Why Can’t We Stop?
By Chris van Tulleken
LR
March 2023 Issue
Henry Gee
Could Jurassic Park Happen?
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
By Dale E Greenwalt
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February 2023 Issue
Stephen Vines
Headlines & Death Threats
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
By Maria Ressa
LR
February 2023 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Quis Custodiet?
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
By Laurent Richard & Sandrine Rigaud
December 2022 Issue
Will Wiles
More Than Meets the Eye
Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing
By Riccardo Falcinelli (Translated from Italian by Simon Carnell & Erica Segre)
LR
December 2022 Issue
Tim Stevens
Small Yet Mighty
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
By Chris Miller
November 2022 Issue
Carl Miller
Are You Outraged Yet?
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By Max Fisher
October 2022 Issue
Jane O’Grady
The Unbearable Likeness of Being
Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences
By Andrew S Reynolds
LR
August 2022 Issue
Tom Whyman
Ghost of the Jukebox
Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld
By Byung-Chul Han (Translated from German by Daniel Steuer)
LR
August 2022 Issue
Theo Zenou
Death, Thou Shalt Die
The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever
By Peter Ward
LR
August 2022 Issue
David Anderson
Rousing the Weary Giants
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
By Jamie Susskind
LR
July 2022 Issue
John Gribbin
Mr Willis’s Second-Best Pupil
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
By Frank Close
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In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors.
Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution.
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Peter Marshall: Down with the Ox Tax! - Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper
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The Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who died yesterday, reviewed many books on Russia & spying for our pages. As he lived under threat of assassination, books had to be sent to him under ever-changing pseudonyms. Here are a selection of his pieces:
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Book reviews by Oleg Gordievsky
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The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened.
@StephenSmithWDS wonders how two East End gadflies infiltrated the Eastern Bloc.
Stephen Smith - From Russia with Lucre
Stephen Smith: From Russia with Lucre - Gilbert & George and the Communists by James Birch
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