Sam Graydon grapples with quantum physics and the subatomic world; Elaine Showalter considers the 'startlingly racy, contradictory, emblematic' E. Nesbit, the 'first modern writer for children'; Which out-of-print books should be back in circulation and why? Roz Dineen presents the results of a TLS symposium BooksSix Impossible Things: The ‘quanta of solace’ and the mysteries of the subatomic world, by John GribbinEinstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The search for what lies beyond the quantum, by Lee SmolinThe Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘The Railway Children’, by Eleanor FitzsimonsThe Extraordinary Life of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘Five Children and It’ and ‘The Railway Children’, by Elisabeth Galvin
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