Michael Bywater
Articles by Michael Bywater
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Books
Once and future town
- 18 September 2008
- 2 comments
Pompeii: the Life of a Roman Town Mary Beard Profile Books, 416pp, £25
Politics
Signs of the times
- 08 May 2008
- 3 comments
An exhibition of posters and photographs from the Paris rebellion is irresistible, but tricky out of context
Books
Vorsprung durch Technik
- 01 May 2008
Love and Sex With Robots: the Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships David Levy Duckworth, 320pp, £12.99
Books
The enemies of promise
- 13 March 2008
- 1 comment
George Gissing: a Life Paul Delany Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 444pp, £25
Books
Master of all trades
- 13 November 2006
The Last Man Who Knew Everything Andrew Robinson Oneworld, 288pp, £17.99 ISBN 1851684948
Society
Baby Boomers: and the illusion of perpetual youth
- 30 October 2006
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
Culture
Decoding da Vinci
- 18 September 2006
He was the original Renaissance man: master painter, an inventor of flying machines and weapons of war. But Leonardo's genius is misunderstood
Culture
Master minds
- 28 November 2005
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
Culture
Wot's so great about yoof?
- 10 October 2005
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
