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“... this difference would be that Deadeye Dick is a work of Science Fiction, albeit in a muted form. Colin Greenland’s informative and entertaining study of the genre, titled The Entropy Exhibition, allows us to locate Vonnegut’s central preoccupations within a rich and specific tradition. Entropy can be tolerated, Vonnegut seems to be saying, since ...”

“... damage done to him and his people by science in the harness of capitalism. In September 1897, six Greenland Inuit, including six-year-old Minik and his father, Qisuk, were taken by Robert Peary to New York City and put on display. Peary needed money for further expeditions to the North Pole, and the Inuit, together with an iron-rich meteorite he stole from ...”

“... remarkable photographs follow the lives and the 4000-mile migrations of seals southwards from Greenland, and Brian Davies, founder twenty years ago of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, tells of his success in 1983 in persuading the EEC Governments to ban the import of baby seal products. By 1987 he had procured a similar ban in Canada. Davies ...”

“... close to the common ancestor of all land-lubber animals have been broken out of Devonian rocks in Greenland. The story of the colonisation of land has become both richer and more curious. Then there was the dispute over whether the closest relatives to birds were, or were not, dinosaurs. There still are researchers who think of birds as special enough to ...”

“... now known as the Antonine Plague, named for the emperor at the time, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. As Colin Elliott explains in his lively account of the outbreak, the fact that sores appeared all over the body seems to rule out the disease that we call plague, where the buboes are concentrated at the groin, neck and armpits (boubon is Greek for ...”

“... twitch is on. They are reacting instinctively to climatic anomalies and apocalyptic promptings: Greenland melting, trees at their limits for the absorption of carbon dioxide, uncatalogued fungal diseases, proliferating and mutating insects, the piercing of the ozone veil. Even the language of transcription, at this point, begins to take on a Madame ...”

“... T.J. Clark, Jonathan Coe, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Daniel Finn, Dawn Foster, Jeremy Harding, Colin Kidd, Ross McKibbin, Philippe Marlière, James Meek, Pankaj Mishra, Jan-Werner Müller, Susan Pedersen, J.G.A. Pocock, Nick Richardson, Nicholas Spice, Wolfgang Streeck, Daniel TrillingDavid RuncimanSo who​ is to blame? Please don’t say the ...”