Mathew Lyons
Mathew Lyons is a historian, writer and author of ‘The Favourite: Ralegh and His Queen’.
Articles by Mathew Lyons
What dust can tell us about modernity
We have filled our modern world with tiny particles. We ignore them at our peril – as Jay Owens lays out clearly in her book
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What supporting my father through Alzheimer’s taught me
As a historian, the experience made me question my ideas about memory and identity
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A stranger in your own land
Two new books delve into the grief of migration and the longing for lost homelands.
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Book review: Sounds wild and broken
In his exhilarating new book, David George Haskell explores how evolution and sound-making go hand in hand.
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Book review: God: An Anatomy
A new book examines how the western idea of God developed, and how the values and flaws attributed to him have changed over time.
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Book review: Islands of Abandonment
Cal Flyn finds cause for hope in even the most toxic and despoiled of environments.
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Book review: Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald explores the luminous complexities of science and the wonder of belonging in the natural world.
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Book review: An Indifference of Birds
What if we looked at human history from a bird's eye view?
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