Bryan Appleyard

Articles by Bryan Appleyard

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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

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

Bring on the nerds

  • 15 March 2004

Lost in Space: the fall of Nasa and the dream of a new space age Greg Klerkx Secker & Warburg, 392pp, £18.99 ISBN 0375421505

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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