A New Map of Wonders

A New Map of Wonders is about wonder and things that make the world astonishing. Advance praise for the book is  here . Links to reviews...

A wondrous brew of science, history, and sheer exhilaration. Read it and marvel.  — Sarah Bakewell, author How to Live and At the Exis...

A poem, as a manifestation of language and, thus, essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the — not always greatl...

Here is the front cover of A New Map of Wonders , which will be published in autumn 2017 by Granta in the UK and Chicago University Press in...

It has been a while since I have posted on the blog.  This is mainly because I have been busy. The manuscript of A New Map of Wonders is ju...

[AlphaGo] doesn’t perceive the world or move within it, and the totality of its behaviour is manifest through the moves it makes on the G...

One legend of the Yurok people says that, far out in the Pacific Ocean but not farther than a canoe can paddle, the rim of the sky make...