Our top 10 picks of Books & Arts coverage of the year.
The sound of the Large Hadron Collider, the roots of violence and the biogeographical legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace are some of the topics that appeared in Books and Arts reviews and Q&As in 2013. A subscription is required to view this content.
David Quammen re-enters the 'Milky Way of land masses' evoked by Alfred Russel Wallace's masterpiece of biogeography.
10 April 2013
Robert Macfarlane reflects on the recent resurgence in nature writing.
12 June 2013
Nathaniel Comfort assesses Craig Venter's vision of nature-as-machine.
23 October 2013
Audio sculptor Bill Fontana creates recordings of particle generators at CERN. He talks about chasing vibrations in gases, liquids and solids.
26 June 2013
The stuff in the built environment is mostly manufactured and used with little thought for waste and pollution. Radical moves are afoot.
13 February 2013
Historian Richard Rhodes writes on the roots of violence and warfare. He talks about his upcoming book on the Spanish Civil War, That Fine Place.
6 February 2013
David Dobbs enjoys a brilliant look at the making of DSM-5, the new 'psychiatrists' Bible'.
1 May 2013
Philip Hoare tracks the scientific influences and insights that breach throughout Herman Melville's epic novel.
9 January 2013
Bob Bloomfield assesses a haunting photographic record of remote environments and the indigenous peoples who live in them.
3 April 2013
Mike Davis on a chronicle of four 'instant' cities modernized by mimicking the West.
27 February 2013
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Books & Arts of 2013. Nature (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2013.14344
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