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Bryan Appleyard

Articles by Bryan Appleyard

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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

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 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

Mind games

  • 26 April 2004

Mind Wide Open: one man's journey into the workings of his brain
Steven Johnson Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 274pp, £17.99
ISBN 0713996781

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