The Nautilus Summer Reading List


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An extraordinary holidays are those that open the mind. When you turn the corner in a new place brings a change of perspective that triggers surprise and pleasure – and, if you are lucky, you even wonder. HAS NautilusWe note that big books can do the same. In recent months, we have read dozens, and it is our pleasure to bring you some of our favorites.
In their pages, we went to the planet’s poles with the renowned evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, sitting alongside monks with the author Pico Iyer, and fled with starlings through history. The novelist Nnedi Okorafor has transplanted to us in the mind of an author who tries to write a new type of history – which makes the boundaries between fiction and reality disappear; And we found a 1970 book by a curious doctor who features the strange land of our own anatomy.
Fortunately, it is easier to wrap more books in a season than vacation – and they make some of the best travel companions. We hope you appreciate the new perspectives by turning the many corners of these pages.

Read an interview with Open Socrates Author Agnes Callard.

Read an interview with Fust Planet Future The author Robert Dash, and see some of the intriguing images of the book.

Read a review of The body has a head– “The most absolute book I have ever read on the human body and mind”, according to the editor -in -chief of Kevin Berger.

Read an extract of No less strange or wonderful On an unexpected meeting with a character in the theme park and the sense of truth.

Read an interview with In flames Author Pico Iyer.

Read an extract of How this robot made me feelWhen the author obtained a robot cat for his rabbit.

Read the “3 Greatest Revelations” author that Thomas Levenson lived during writing So very small.
8 The author’s death: a novel By Nnedi Okoraforfor

A story in a story that will make you question the nature of the narration itself – and will let you think of what it really means as a human being.

Read a test of the evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin on the reason why the budget cuts for research in Antarctica spend a disaster.

Read an extract of StarvesAbout one of the most despised birds in the United States.
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