Why Time Flies

`A fascinating premise that we can all relate to...A well-researched volume [with] some fascinating insights.' * AU Review * `To readers of the New Yorker, Burdick's style is instantly recognisable: informal, informed and indefatigably researched...His wit and humour keep the narrative rolling with wry observations.' * New Zealand Herald * `[Burdick] is an engaging writer guided by curiosity.' * Saturday Paper * `Brilliant, brain-boggling.' * New Daily * 'An insightful meditation on the curious nature of time....A highly illuminating intellectual investigation.' * Kirkus Reviews * `[Why Time Flies] opens up a well of fascinating queries and gives us a glimpse of what has become an ever more deepening mystery for humans: the nature of time.' * New York Times Book Review * `Alan Burdick turns an obsession with the nature of time into a thrilling quest-one that brilliantly illuminates a subject that haunts us all. Time may fly by but at least while reading these pages it is never wasted.' * David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z * `Alan Burdick offers a fascinating and searching account of how we perceive time's passage. It will change the way you think about the past, and also the present.' * Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction * `In his lucid, thoughtful, and beautifully written inquiry about time...Burdick offers nothing less than a new way of reconsidering what it means to be human.' * Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life *