The First Word

Advanced Praise “‘The First Word’ is a rare and delightful mix: both a probing exploration of one of the great remaining mysteries of life, and a riveting story of the battles and breakthroughs that drive scientific progress.”Steve Johnson...

Journalism

Buzzfeed The Ghosts of the Orphanage The Atlantic When Fire Weather Becomes the Norm Scientific American A ‘De-extinction’ Company Wants to Bring Back the Dodo The Cultural Origins of Language The New Yorker Do Brain Implants Change Your Identity? The Inferno...

The Orphanage Article

Nuns Killed Children, Say Former Residents Of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage Nuns beat, tortured, and even killed kids, say former orphanage residents — opening a new front in the Catholic abuse scandal pic.twitter.com/GvR2LLR6v9 — AM to DM by BuzzFeed News (@AM2DM)...
Stella Prize Shortlist 2015

Stella Prize Shortlist 2015

The Invisible History of the Human Race has made the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist. Here’s what the judges had to say:   The sciences and the humanities are traditionally thought of as separate, or even as opposite, fields of study and endeavour, but...
Stella Prize Longlist 2015

Stella Prize Longlist 2015

Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke (Hachette) The Strays by Emily Bitto (Affirm Press) Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey (Penguin) This House of Grief by Helen Garner (Text Publishing) Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett (Penguin) The Invisible History of the Human Race...