Summary: 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 Books Six Impossible Things: The ‘quanta of solace’ and the mysteries of the subatomic world, by John Gribbin Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The search for what lies beyond the quantum, by Lee Smolin The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘The Railway Children’, by Eleanor Fitzsimons The Extraordinary Life of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘Five Children and It’ and ‘The Railway Children’, by Elisabeth Galvin <br><hr><p style="color: grey;">See <a style="color: grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
