Bryan Appleyard
Articles by Bryan Appleyard
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Music
My life as a sock puppet
- 26 February 2007
I have become the sort of person who sits in Earls Court watching pop bands warm up and eating steak sandwiches. Who am I?
SciTech
Drugs and debauchery
- 03 July 2006
The Death of Marco Pantani: a biography
Matt Rendell Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 324pp, £16.99
ISBN 0297850962
Society
Religion: who needs it?
- 10 April 2006
We live in times where the power of religious belief can often appear terrifying. Yet in many countries religion is declining as dramatically as it is thriving in others. In this special issue we ask how important religion still is in the modern world - and can it survive in a future where science and technology are the gods? Bryan Appleyard begins in Britain - and finds the church in trouble
SciTech
The great beyond. Today the idea of space travel has a dated feel, but it was once a heroic quest that epitomised man's struggle to transcend his limitations. Bryan Appleyard recalls the era of the space dreamers, when the moon seemed like the first step to the stars
- 03 October 2005
Space Race: the untold story of two rivals and their struggle for the moon
Deborah Cadbury Fourth Estate, 372pp, £20
ISBN 0007209959
Books
The locked room
- 11 July 2005
I Am Alive and You Are Dead: a journey into the mind of Philip K Dick
Emmanuel Carrere; translated by
Timothy Bent Bloomsbury, 336pp, £17.99
ISBN 0747569193
Books
Deep ignorance
- 09 May 2005
Why Most Things Fail: evolution, extinction and economics
Paul Ormerod Faber & Faber, 255pp, £12.99
ISBN 0571220126
Books
Forgotten favourites - Disappearing act
- 29 November 2004
The Invisible Man
H G Wells Kessinger Publishing, 140pp, £15.95
ISBN 141916757X
Books
Safety in numbers
- 05 July 2004
The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki Little, Brown, 295pp, £16.99
ISBN 0316861731
Books
The misery of plenty
- 07 June 2004
The Paradox of Choice: why more is less
Barry Schwartz HarperCollins, 265pp, £14.99
ISBN 0060005688
SciTech
Mind games
- 26 April 2004
Mind Wide Open: one man's journey into the workings of his brain
Steven Johnson Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 274pp, £17.99
ISBN 0713996781


