Robert B. Silvers Book order
Robert Silvers was an American editor who served as editor of The New York Review of Books from 1963 to 2017. During his tenure, he shaped its style and content, becoming an influential figure in literary criticism and intellectual discourse. His editorial vision helped establish the publication as a premier forum for discussing literature, politics, and culture. Silvers's legacy lies in his commitment to rigorous writing and in-depth analysis that defined The New York Review of Books.
- 2008
- 1997
Hidden Histories of Science
- 193 pages
- 7 hours of reading
These five essays show that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past, but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhood."
