Bryan Appleyard

Articles by Bryan Appleyard

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Little things that matter

  • 16 April 2009

How We Live and Why We Die: the Secret Lives of Cells Lewis Wolpert Faber & Faber, 240pp, £14.99

My life as a sock puppet

  • 26 February 2007

I have become the sort of person who sits in Earls Court watching pop bands warm up and eating steak sandwiches. Who am I?

Drugs and debauchery

  • 03 July 2006

The Death of Marco Pantani: a biography Matt Rendell Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 324pp, £16.99 ISBN 0297850962

Religion: who needs it?

  • 10 April 2006
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We live in times where the power of religious belief can often appear terrifying. Yet in many countries religion is declining as dramatically as it is thriving in others. In this special issue we ask how important religion still is in the modern world - and can it survive in a future where science and technology are the gods? Bryan Appleyard begins in Britain - and finds the church in trouble

The great beyond. Today the idea of space travel has a dated feel, but it was once a heroic quest that epitomised man's struggle to transcend his limitations. Bryan Appleyard recalls the era of the space dreamers, when the moon seemed like the first step to the stars

  • 03 October 2005

Space Race: the untold story of two rivals and their struggle for the moon Deborah Cadbury Fourth Estate, 372pp, £20 ISBN 0007209959

The locked room

  • 11 July 2005

I Am Alive and You Are Dead: a journey into the mind of Philip K Dick Emmanuel Carrere; translated by Timothy Bent Bloomsbury, 336pp, £17.99 ISBN 0747569193

Deep ignorance

  • 09 May 2005

Why Most Things Fail: evolution, extinction and economics Paul Ormerod Faber & Faber, 255pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571220126

Forgotten favourites - Disappearing act

  • 29 November 2004

The Invisible Man H G Wells Kessinger Publishing, 140pp, £15.95 ISBN 141916757X

Safety in numbers

  • 05 July 2004

The Wisdom of Crowds James Surowiecki Little, Brown, 295pp, £16.99 ISBN 0316861731

The misery of plenty

  • 07 June 2004

The Paradox of Choice: why more is less Barry Schwartz HarperCollins, 265pp, £14.99 ISBN 0060005688

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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