Tag: Science
Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell about It
Leah Larwood is fascinated by a nonfiction title that confronts the author’s own strange and frightening night-time encounters, and the scientific and …
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The Bloodless Boy
London, New Year’s Day 1678, twelve years after the Great Fire and eighteen since the fall of Oliver Cromwell’s republic and the restoration of the mo …
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Proud Flesh
I had fallen out of love with everything. It was calming to think of all the ways a person could go, but wasn’t serious enough to pull it off. A routi …
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Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation
Edward O Wilson, as readers of the New Welsh Review will know, is one of the world’s leading evolutionary biologists, an entomologist with an unrivall …
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Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation
Bursting bandwagon or hayrick of universal hope, nature writing has a pretty unequivocal message: nature is benign, greenery is good, and all the evil …
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Field Trips In The Anthropocene
AC Bevan’s Field Trips in the Anthropocene is the poet’s fifth collection and possibly his most relevant. In the ongoing battle against global warming …
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Connecting the Dragons
I’ll let you in on something that I have scarcely told anyone before: a part of me secretly wants to become a zoologist. I’ve always loved the idea of …
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Swansea Automatic
How does a colour become a symbolic colour? How does a place become a symbolic place? Why is this book about SWANSEA and not ABERYSTWYTH or LONDON? In …
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The Red Lady of Paviland
Scientists open the curtains, wake her with light, and there she is, who’s only bits of bone. There she is look, up there in that cave, preserved by h …
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