Books & Arts in 2019

Chris Lintott’s chronicle of the booming citizen-science project Zooniverse is inspirational, finds Michael West.

Two timely, urgent books offer different takes on the state of the seas. Boris Worm lauds both.

Laura Spinney weighs up Frank Snowden’s sweeping history charting the impact of infectious diseases on society.

Mary Craig reviews the highlights of this season’s releases.

Diane Coyle compares three tomes by big thinkers on prosperity, justice and environmental health.

Angela N. H. Creager is inspired by the life of the Nobel laureate who discovered deuterium.

David E. Nye examines two volumes on the complex history of lighting technologies.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

On the centenary of the Nobel laureate’s birth, Patrick French explores her science-infused series Canopus in Argos.

The legal habit still kills more than eight million people a year. Felicity Lawrence praises a history.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

Douglas Adams’s satirical science-fiction classic still seems prescient, writes Shamini Bundell.

Stuart Russell’s latest book examines how artificial intelligence could spin out of control. David Leslie critiques it.

Julia Prague investigates a book that draws on evolutionary theories to explore post-reproductive strategies in society.

Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

Ann Pettifor finds astonishing contemporary resonance in John Maynard Keynes’s critique of globalization and inequity.

Michael E. Mann examines Naomi Klein’s collection on the proposed US policy aiming to curb climate change.

Ruth A. Morgan lauds a book chronicling the evolution of Earth-systems science through the stories of its luminaries.

Kathleen Jamie’s lens on human and planetary crossroads bends time and illuminates place, finds Barbara Kiser.

Vaclav Smil’s latest book investigates the cost of energy use on a planet with finite resources. Melanie Moses praises the result.