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Books
The End of Discovery
18 October 2010
Religion
The God-shaped hole in our lives
19 July 2010

We like to think that religion counts only when we need to choose a good school for our children. Ye

Books
High Financier: the Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
05 July 2010

Siegmund Warburg, scion of the great banking dynasty, founded his own financial house with the aim o

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The Believers: How America Fell for Bernard Madoff’s $65bn Investment Scam
03 December 2009
Books
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

Music and Performance
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

Books
Drugs and debauchery
03 July 2006

The Death of Marco Pantani: a biography

Matt Rendell Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 3

Religion
Religion: who needs it?
10 April 2006

We live in times where the power of religious belief can often appear terrifying. Yet in many countr

Books
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
03 October 2005

Space Race: the untold story of two rivals and their struggle for the moon

Deborah Cadbury Fou

Books
The locked room<br />
11 July 2005

I Am Alive and You Are Dead: a journey into the mind of Philip K Dick

Emmanuel Carrere; translated

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