Monthly Archives: October 2006

The Creation

A version of this review of E.O. Wilson’s new book The Creation will appear on the newsstands soon.
E.O. Wilson
THE CREATION: A MEETING OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
W.W. Norton, £13.99
In his recent book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins argues that religion is the enemy of science. And he means all religion – not just the apocalyptic variety [...]

House of Meetings

In 2002 Martin Amis published Koba the Dread, a memoir-cum-history of Stalinism. The book closes with a letter to his father’s ghost, in which Amis tries to sum up the difference between his own work and that of Kingsley Amis: “You wrote… about the bourgeoisie in your fiction,” he says, “a category seldom seen in [...]