http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/michael_bywater en http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/09/mary-beard-roman-town-pompeii http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/09/mary-beard-roman-town-pompeii Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:23:36 GMT Michael Bywater Pompeii: the Life of a Roman Town Mary Beard Profile Books, 416pp, £25

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/08/ian-kelly-casanova-life-sex http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/08/ian-kelly-casanova-life-sex Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:28:48 GMT Michael Bywater Casanova Ian Kelly Hodder & Stoughton, 403pp, £20

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2008/05/paris-rebellion-1968-posters http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2008/05/paris-rebellion-1968-posters Thu, 08 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT Michael Bywater An exhibition of posters and photographs from the Paris rebellion is irresistible, but tricky out of context

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/05/human-robot-sex-love-levy http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/05/human-robot-sex-love-levy Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT Michael Bywater Love and Sex With Robots: the Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships David Levy Duckworth, 320pp, £12.99

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/03/gissing-life-delany-nell-world http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/03/gissing-life-delany-nell-world Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT Michael Bywater George Gissing: a Life Paul Delany Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 444pp, £25

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200611130051 http://www.newstatesman.com/200611130051 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT Michael Bywater The Last Man Who Knew Everything Andrew Robinson Oneworld, 288pp, £17.99 ISBN 1851684948

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200610300032 http://www.newstatesman.com/200610300032 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT Michael Bywater Greedy, trivial, venal, cosseted . . . The postwar generation of children grew up protected by cosy routine yet fearing nuclear annihilation. So, instead of becoming adults, they just got bigger, as did their toys and their tantrums

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200609180034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200609180034 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT Michael Bywater He was the original Renaissance man: master painter, an inventor of flying machines and weapons of war. But Leonardo's genius is misunderstood

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200511280027 http://www.newstatesman.com/200511280027 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Michael Bywater What makes a genius? Certainly not going on a creativity course and learning to "think outside the box". According to an exhibition devoted to Nobel laureates, genius is the product of grinding practice, heroic self-absorption and the ability to recover from mistakes

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200510100036 http://www.newstatesman.com/200510100036 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Michael Bywater As the Young@Heart Chorus prepares to astound London with its ancient cast, whose ages range from 73 to 101, Michael Bywater celebrates the desperately unfashionable notion of Being Old

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