Recommendations from our site
“Ramakrishnan puts together all the evidence we have about the molecular and cellular biology of ageing and of cancer—and how this relates to mortality, and makes a very interesting point that I had never thought about, which is that there is a tension in the way our cells work in holding off ageing, but also holding off cancer. The two work at loggerheads; you don’t want to get cancer, but also you don’t want your cells to grow too old and to get too damaged to function. Preventing one can enable the other.” Read more...
“Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan has a new book out on the science of ageing and our efforts to prolong our lives. It’s called Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality, and has got rave blurbs from Bill Bryson and Stephen Fry, amongst others.” Read more...
Nonfiction Books to Look Out for in Early 2024
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate
by Donald Rayfield -
Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist
by David Bather Woods -
Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings
by Toby Wilkinson -
The Death of Stalin
by Sheila Fitzpatrick -
The Land in Winter
by Andrew Miller
