How to Love Animals by Henry Mance review – the case against modern farming
Turning vegan ... a series of investigations, presented with humour and humility, into our contradictory relationships with pets, livestock and wildlifeWhile researching this book, Henry Mance worked...
View ArticlePost Growth by Tim Jackson review – life after capitalism
The ecological economist adds to his message that relentless economic expansion is killing the planet with a set of more philosophical reflections. But does ‘post growth’ offer as many answers as the...
View ArticleThis month’s best paperbacks: Richard Osman, International Booker nominees...
Here are some outstanding new paperbacks for May, including Osman’s bestselling crime caper, Adam Buxton’s memoir and a fascinating study of eelsContinue reading...
View ArticleFinding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard review – a journey of passion and...
A root-and-branch study of the network that sustains our forests shows how all life is interconnectedOur relationship with the natural world is balanced on a knife-edge, which means our own lives, too,...
View ArticleThe Nightingale by Sam Lee review – a love letter to the songbird
The folk singer offers a lyrical homage to the endangered migrant bird whose uniquely beautiful song he has been communing with up close for yearsA few years ago, a group of friends and I followed...
View ArticleDaniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust...
The Nobel-winning psychologist on applying his ideas to organisations, why we’re not equipped to grasp the spread of a virus, and the massive disruption that’s just round the cornerDaniel Kahneman, 87,...
View ArticleBranching out: is communication possible between trees and people?
Trees communicate with each other, store memories and respond to attacks. They have a profoundly positive effect on our emotions … but can we know how they feel about us?Why can’t we communicate with...
View ArticleDreaming of a better future? Ali Smith, Malcolm Gladwell and more on books to...
As our thoughts turn to life after the pandemic, authors from this year’s Hay festival choose books that have inspired lasting change in themAli Smith, novelistBooks, and all the arts, naturally and...
View ArticleTop 10 books for a greener economy | Ann Pettifor
As we struggle with our devastating addiction to fossil fuels, these books think through some of the ways we can adopt a more sustainable way of lifeFor a year from 2007 to 2008, a group of British...
View ArticleOn the Fringe by Michael D Gordin review – why pseudoscience is here to stay
A fascinating exploration of the line between science and pseudoscience takes in anti-vaxxers, ufology and spoon-bending physicists at the CIADuring the Covid-19 pandemic we have watched science evolve...
View ArticleSummer reading: the 50 hottest new books everyone should read
From missing lighthouse keepers to the healing power of trees ... 50 new fiction and nonfiction books to enjoy. Plus recent paperbacks to pack and the best children’s storiesBernardine Evaristo, Hilary...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’
The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithms Kate Crawford studies the social and political...
View ArticleThis month’s best paperbacks: Alan Davies, Monique Roffey and a...
Here are some outstanding new paperbacks for June, including Costa-winner The Mermaid of Black Conch, the comedian’s shocking memoir and a Belgian post-apocalyptic classicContinue reading...
View ArticleNeuroscientist Karl Deisseroth: ‘Coronavirus has changed us all’
The neuroscientist and psychiatrist explains Zoom fatigue - and why the conditions of the pandemic can induce an ‘altered state’The coronavirus pandemic has been a disorienting kind of emergency. It is...
View ArticleTrue to nature: Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and more on the children’s...
From Watership Down to The Animals of Farthing Wood, leading nature writers discuss the children’s classics that made them want to write about the natural worldA couple of years ago I found myself...
View ArticleDavid Eagleman: ‘The working of the brain resembles drug dealers in Albuquerque’
The neuroscientist, broadcaster and author on the evolution of the brain, the mystery of consciousnesss, and why the next generation will be much smarter than usDavid Eagleman, 50, is an American...
View ArticleSecond Nature by Nathaniel Rich; Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert...
Two startling accounts of humanity’s devastating impact on the natural world make it clear that any potential solution will involve huge riskFor most of history, humans have viewed wild places as...
View ArticleConnections by Karl Deisseroth review – artful insights into the brain
The psychiatrist and neuroscientist exploits cutting-edge technology to illuminate emotions and mental illness in these vivid case studiesKarl Deisseroth’s book comes so richly garlanded with...
View ArticleHow Women Can Save the Planet by Anne Karpf review – clear and invigorating
From water pilgrims to climate refugees, those who are suffering most from the climate crisis have done the least to cause it, argues this strong and inspiring analysisThe language around the climate...
View ArticleDouglas Coupland on Generation X at 30: ‘Generational trashing is eternal’
Three decades after his debut novel made him the unwilling voice of a generation, the author wonders whether – after Y, Z and now C, for Covid – individuality will become obsoleteOn the Road to Bridget...
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