The Sunday Times Bestseller
This is the book we need right now CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ
Lucid, funny and fascinating ADAM BUXTON
The tortured poet.
The rebellious scientist.
The monstrous artist.
he tech disruptor.
You can tell what a society values by who it labels as a genius. You can also tell who it excludes, who it enables, and what it is prepared to tolerate.
Taking us from the Renaissance Florence of Leonardo da Vinci to the Floridian rocket launches of Elon Musks SpaceX, Helen Lewis unravels a word that we all use without really questioning what it means and asks if the modern idea of genius is distorting our view of the world.
Brilliant, timely and compulsively readable OLIVER BURKEMANA provocative, witty book TLS
