The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

“Honestly, riveting. Lucretius wrote “On the Nature of Things” in the first century BCE - using poetry to describe a theory of atoms and the physical world that resonates today. The poem was almost lost to time, but rediscovered in the Renaissance and helped to help stir up, in Greenblatt’s telling, the modern world. I love a gripping history and this doesn’t disappoint.”

“It’s a triumph of goodness that this book is successful despite the title and cover. Kept getting recommended to me and I could never do it because it just looks boring! It is not boring. It’s amazing.”