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Mark Kurlansky

July 2017

  • Boxes of fish at the white fish port of Peterhead.

    Enjoy cod’s revival, but the extent of our ruination of the sea remains unknown

    Mark Kurlansky
    Yes, stocks may have recovered in the North Sea, but overfishing is not the problem in sustaining marine health

July 2016

  • handmade paper hung out to dry in south korea

    Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky – review

    This well-bound romp through the back pages of civilisation is flawed but fascinating

March 2016

  • Corbyn colouring book

    Books blog
    Happiness to mindfulness, via wellbeing: how publishing trends grow

    From cod to colouring, fashions come and go in books. What do they tell us about our culture, and can we predict what’s next?

November 2011

  • blueberry muffin

    Edible Stories by Mark Kurlansky – review

    Tom Jaine finds satisfying snacks in a master foodist's menu of tiny fantasies

April 2011

  • mark kurlansky fish

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Mark Kurlansky: 'Fish ought to be expensive. But then what are poor people supposed to eat?'

    The writer and campaigner on why he's written a kids' book about overfishing, and how the codpiece got its name

July 2008

  • No net gain from empty seas

    Review: The Last Fish Tale by Mark Kurlansky and Bottomfeeder: How the Fish on our Plates Is Killing the Planet by Taras Grescoe

    Relentless over-fishing may cause fish stocks to run out altogether within decades. Two new books offer little cause for hope, says Alex Renton

June 2006

  • Cooking the books

    Kathryn Hughes tries out Mark Kurlansky's The Big Oyster: New York in the World - A Molluscular History.

April 2006

  • Shell life

    Mark Kurlansky tells the history of New York through a humble shellfish in The Big Oyster

August 2005

  • Hope you like my book, Mr Bush

    What does it mean that George Bush, a man who is known to read no newspapers, who wants to throw out centuries of scientific learning and replace it with mythical mumbo-jumbo that he mistakenly calls religion, who preaches Christianity but seems to have never read the teachings of the great anti-war activist, Jesus Christ, is now spending his vacation reading my book, Salt: A World History?

April 2005

  • Take with a large pinch of salt

    Todd McEwen wants more imagination and less foodie lecturing from Mark Kurlansky's first novel, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue.

April 2004

  • Lights, camera, factions

    Mark Kurlansky's riveting account of the worldwide upheavals in 1968 shows how important TV was in the year of protest - but misses the wider point, says Peter Preston

February 2002

  • Rock of ages

    Chris Lavers on Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History, a 5,000-year odyssey that shows how sodium chloride has profoundly influenced people's lives

January 2002

  • Son of cod...

    Mark Kurlansky follows his bestselling history of the codfish with the stylish and learned Salt. How long will we have to wait before we get a history of vinegar?

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