Many human beings have considered the powers and the limits of human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the idea of knowledge has over us. Steven Connor’s The Madness of Knowledge i
Air - without it, life on Earth would cease to exist. Though not usually seen, its presence is relied upon. At once ethereal and physical, air has been associated with flight and spirit, transcendenc
Few insects are as universally loathed as the fly. Steven Connor delights in tracking his lowly subject through myth, literature, painting, film and biology. This the first book to give this much mali
