Simon Winchester is the author of some thirty books, including The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, The Man Who Loved China, Atlantic, The Men Who United the States, Pacific, The Perfectionists, and, most recently, Land. He is a member of the Lapham’s Quarterly editorial board.
From Antikythera to AI—tracking the labyrinthine path of technology’s progress. More
Exploring—and ignoring—climate chaos in the South Pacific. More
How I came to be banned from the world’s most remote island, Tristan da Cunha. More
The making of the Dictionary of American Regional English, a five-thousand-page, five-volume book... More
Simon Winchester muses on what it means to be truly at sea. More
Roundtable
The victim of the first big mistake I ever made was a gentleman to whom I had never been properly introduced (and whose name I still do not know) but who was possessed of three singular qualities: he was alone in a room with me, he was without his trousers, and he was very, very dead. More
What if the Yangtze River had turned south instead of east? More
