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astronomy

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 18 August 2005

Francis Spufford: Operation Backfire · 28 October 1999

Tim Radford: Cosmic! · 5 March 1998

  • Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford
  • Countdown: A History of Space Flight by T.A. Heppenheimer
  • Something New under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age by Helen Gavaghan
  • Space and the American Imagination by Howard McCurdy

John Leslie: Fine-Tuned for Life · 1 January 1998

  • Before the Beginning by Martin Rees
  • The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin

australasia

Chloe Hooper: Kindred Spirits · 18 August 2005

Tom Nairn: Diary · 18 November 2004

Greg Dening: Standing on the Wharf, Weeping · 25 September 2003

  • The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia by John Gascoigne
  • Looking for Blackfella’s Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
  • Words for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia by Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths
  • The Land Is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia edited by Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson

aviation

Peter Campbell: At the Science Museum · 3 February 2005

Richard Adams: Flying Costs · 2 September 2004

Robert Macfarlane: Seven Miles per Hour · 5 February 2004

  • First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright by James Tobin
  • The Wright Brothers: The Aviation Pioneers who Changed the World by Ian Mackersey
  • Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman
  • Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity to the First World War by Richard Hallion

Francis Spufford: Love that Bird · 6 June 2002

E.S. Turner: Gas-Bags · 15 November 2001

  • Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Historic Saga of the Round-the-World Zeppelin by Douglas Botting

Ian Hamilton: Diary · 29 April 1999

bibliography

Leah Price: ‘Très vrai!’ · 18 October 2001

  • Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson

Joanna Kavenna: The Inner Lives of Quiet Women · 21 September 2000

  • May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian by Suzanne Raitt

Jason Harding: Dipper · 21 September 2000

  • George Moore, 1852-1933 by Adrian Frazier

biogenetics

Slavoj Žižek: Bring me my Philips Mental Jacket · 22 May 2003

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 19 September 2002

biography

Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Howl, Howl, Howl! · 22 May 2008

Michael Dobson: Father-Daughter Problems · 8 May 2008

Elisabeth Ladenson: Someone like Maman · 8 May 2008

  • Madame Proust: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Alice Kaplan  Buy this book

Hilary Mantel: Frocks and Shocks · 24 April 2008

Thomas Jones: Whisky and Soda Man · 10 April 2008

  • Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton – An Autobiography by J.G. Ballard  Buy this book

Ferdinand Mount: Adored Gazelle · 20 March 2008

Megan Marshall: Pretty Letters · 21 February 2008

James Morone: Whoopers and Shouters · 21 February 2008

  • A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin  Buy this book

Charles Nicholl: Who was he? · 7 February 2008

  • The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath by Charles van Onselen  Buy this book

Jeremy Harding: Disaffiliate, Reaffiliate, Kill Again · 7 February 2008

  • Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography by Régis Debray, translated by John Howe  Buy this book

Ferdinand Mount: ‘Derek, please, not so fast’ · 7 February 2008

  • As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of Derek Jackson by Simon Courtauld  Buy this book

Julian Bell: Bon Viveur in Cuban Heels · 3 January 2008

  • A Life of Picasso, Vol. III: The Triumphant Years 1917-32 by John Richardson  Buy this book

Terry Castle: Husbands and Wives · 13 December 2007

  • Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore edited by Louise Downie  Buy this book
  • Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm  Buy this book

William Feaver: Oh for the oo tray · 13 December 2007

Thomas Keymer: Rogering in Merryland · 13 December 2007

James Davidson: No Beast More Refined · 29 November 2007

Megan Marshall: Let Them Be Sea-Captains · 15 November 2007

  • Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years by Charles Capper  Buy this book

Deborah Friedell: Desk Job · 15 November 2007

Mark Greif: Black and White Life · 1 November 2007

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Charmer · 1 November 2007

August Kleinzahler: What Happened to Obama? · 18 October 2007

James Shapiro: Visible Woman · 4 October 2007

Michael Wood: Understanding Forwards · 20 September 2007

  • William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert Richardson  Buy this book

Stefan Collini: Hierophants · 6 September 2007

Colm Tóibín: The Wickedest Woman in Paris · 6 September 2007

J. Hoberman: Thunder in the Mountains · 6 September 2007

  • Orson Welles: Hello Americans by Simon Callow  Buy this book
  • What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride  Buy this book

Linda Colley: Not Like the Rest of Us · 16 August 2007

  • A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein  Buy this book
  • Hillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta  Buy this book

Rosemary Hill: Why we have them I can’t think · 16 August 2007

Jenny Diski: Not Enjoying Herself · 16 August 2007

Jenny Diski: Tunnel Vision · 2 August 2007

R.W. Johnson: Ducking and Dodging · 19 July 2007

Peter Clarke: ‘There is a woman behind this!’ · 19 July 2007

  • Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw  Buy this book

David Nasaw: Scandal in Pittsburgh · 19 July 2007

Hilary Mantel: The Real Price of Everything · 21 June 2007

Stephen Walsh: Mikoyan Shuddered · 21 June 2007

Thomas Jones: This Is Not That Place · 21 June 2007

David Coward: Ten Billion Letters · 21 June 2007

  • Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna  Buy this book

Nicholas Penny: Hot Air · 7 June 2007

Dan Jacobson: Kipling in South Africa · 7 June 2007

Bee Wilson: Boudoir Politics · 7 June 2007

Perry Anderson: Our Man · 10 May 2007

  • The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power by James Traub  Buy this book
  • Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler  Buy this book

Susan Pedersen: Heat-Seeking · 10 May 2007

  • A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe by Chris Wrigley  Buy this book

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