Pissing in the wind?
From brain surgery to climate change Ian McEwan has made scientific literacy fashionable. But will it save us, asks Anne Rooney.
Culture
Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
Matt Parker visits Numberland with Alex Bellos
Dark Matter by Juli Zeh
Stuart Sim enjoys a metaphysical thriller
Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Toby Saul reviews the memoir of an African master
The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre
Francis Beckett on a bleak timely novel about those charged with covering up Catholic child abuse
The last of the bohemians
Tom McDonough celebrates the subversive poetic vision of the Situationists
Film review: Shutter Island
There's nothing wrong with pulp but why has Scorsese dressed it up with technique, asks Fred Rowson
The New Old World by Perry Anderson
Stephen Howe on Perry Anderson's monumental analysis of Europe
Aura & out
Laurie Taylor balances his chakras
Brain drain
Laurie Taylor does some thinking aloud