Read Homo Deus

Harari's human story redrawn as a comic; the same argument in pictures.

Harari's sweeping history of humankind (2011).

Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR; Isaacson on the gene-editing race.

Atul Gawande on what medicine gets wrong about dying, and what a good end looks like.

Hofstadter on self-reference in logic, art and music, and where minds come from; the Pulitzer nobody finishes.

Peter Thiel on monopolies, secrets and why competition is for losers.

Why Eurasia conquered the rest: geography, crops and animals rather than people; Diamond's Pulitzer.

Bill Bryson explains the universe, the atom and the dinosaurs as if to a friend in a pub.