The Secular Study
A plea for more humility
Why do human interactions go wrong with such frequency? Why do we struggle to recognise when we’re being deceived? Why do we jump to inaccurate conclusions, with often devastating consequences?
These are the sort of questions Malcolm Gladwell – a staff writer for The New Yorker once described as one of the world’s 100 most influential thinkers by TIME magazine – wants us to wrestle with in his latest book, Talking to Strangers.
The Secular Study
Lurking beneath the surface
‘We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’
Those words from T.S. Eliot would make a fitting summary of Underland, the latest work from Robert Macfarlane, a leading figure in what is sometimes called ‘new nature writing’, one of the biggest publishing trends of the last decade or so.