Novels by Richard Powers and Colson Whitehead, and polemics by Rachel Carson and Mary Wollstonecraft show how ideas and words can change the world
October 2016
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic biographer – review
Occam's corner
'Culture' means science as well as art – we must look beyond narrow disciplines
Athene Donald
November 2011
Science Weekly
Science Weekly podcast: The inscrutable brain
Bryan Appleyard on the 'vastly inflated claims' of neuroscience, and Richard Holmes on the contenders for this year's Royal Society science book prize
September 2011
Soldiers by Richard Holmes – review
Hew Strachan finds Richard Holmes's last book full of integrity and common sense
September 2009
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Rich with detail, The Age of Wonder is consistently vivid and at times as gripping as a thriller, says Natasha Tripney
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
An accomplished biographer, Holmes is the perfect guide to the 'second scientific revolution', says Ian Pindar
Notes & Theories
Romantic adventurers win book prize
The biographer Richard Holmes has won the Royal Society's annual science book award for The Age of Wonder, his awe-inspiring romp through 18th century discovery
May 2009
Hay festival: Division between sciences and arts puts planet in peril, warns Richard Holmes
Science book club
Richard Holmes brings science's great romantic adventurers back to life
