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PD Smith

PD Smith is the author of four non-fiction books, the most recent being City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, and is currently writing his fifth, on crime and the city. He has a blog and spends far too much time on Twitter.

January 2024

  • Books comp

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in December

    Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they read last month. Join the conversation in the comments

July 2023

  • Shanghai Immortal by AY Chao; Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June

    Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

February 2023

  • Narwhal

    If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal by Justin Gregg review – the problem with human intelligence

    A researcher argues that animals understand how to live well better than their too-brainy counterparts

December 2022

  • Devil’s Dyke in Sussex

    Cloven Country by Jeremy Harte review – in search of England’s devil

  • MRI of the lateral skull

    Body Am I by Moheb Costandi review – the new science of self-consciousness

August 2022

  • closeup of a sunflower

    Book of the day
    Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo review – extraterrestrials in the garden

    A mind-expanding exploration of botanical intelligence argues that plants can remember, learn and even plan ahead

July 2022

  • Poppy-field landscape on Lincolnshire Wolds James' Church Louth Lincolnshire in distance.

    Book of the day
    Edge of England by Derek Turner review – a love letter to Lincolnshire

  • Anekere Padmavathi Basadi<br>Aerial view of the Anekere Padmavathi Basadi, a Jain temple in the middle of Anekere lake. It was built by the Jain king Pandya VI in 1545 A.D. The king’s elephants used to bathe in the lake.

    Book of the day
    Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong review – back to the garden

May 2022

  • ‘A pure adrenaline rush in literary form’: PD Smith on American Tabloid by James Ellroy.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

  • The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in Switzerland

    Book of the day
    The Matter of Everything by Suzie Sheehy review – 12 experiments that changed the world

April 2022

  • Woodland in Dartmoor National Park.

    The Women Who Saved the English Countryside by Matthew Kelly review – nature’s guardians

    From the Lake District to Kent – the history of four women and the landscapes they rescued

March 2022

  • Wharram Percy, one of Europe’s most famous deserted villages

    Book of the day
    Shadowlands by Matthew Green review – Britain’s ghost places

    Sunken off Suffolk, buried on the Welsh borders, uncovered in an Orcadian sandstorm … an eloquent tour of lost communities

January 2022

  • Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix Resurrections

    Book of the day
    Reality+ by David J Chalmers review – are we living in a simulation?

  • climber in the Dolomites, Italy

    Time on Rock by Anna Fleming review – vertiginous adventures

December 2021

  • Sahara Desert

    When the Sahara Was Green by Martin Williams review – the sands of time

    The fascinating story of a unique landscape surveys the climatic changes that made this desert dry – and explains why it will one day be green again

November 2021

  • KITCHEN DEBATE<br>U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, center, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, left center, are engaged in a discussion as they stand in front of a kitchen display at the United States exhibit at Moscow's Sokolniki Park, July 24, 1959. While touring the exhibit, both men kept a running debate on the merits of their respective countries. Standing on the right is Khrushchev's deputy, Leonid Brezhnev. (AP Photo)

    The War of Nerves by Martin Sixsmith review – inside the cold war mind

    The psychology behind an age of nuclear brinkmanship that terrified a generation

September 2021

  • An ear 3D-bioprinted by the Institute of Life Sciences at Swansea University in July.

    Exponential by Azeem Azhar review – bridging the technology gap

    A bullish survey of AI, biotech, renewable energy and more explains how change is leaving us behind, and what we can do about it

August 2021

  • A scanning electron micrograph of a tardigrade, which can exist in a cryptobiosis state between life and death.

    Book of the day
    Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to be alive?

    This profound meditation on the science of life explores where it has come from and how it evolves

June 2021

  • Bryn Celli Ddu, a Neolithic passage tomb on the Isle of Anglesey.. Image shot 2003. Exact date unknown.<br>EFPXGD Bryn Celli Ddu, a Neolithic passage tomb on the Isle of Anglesey.. Image shot 2003. Exact date unknown.

    Book of the day
    Ancestors by Alice Roberts review – a story of movement and migration

  • ufologists hope for a sighting from North Berwick Law, Scotland.

    On the Fringe by Michael D Gordin review – why pseudoscience is here to stay

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