a greatly gifted and highly original artistvarious antidotes is purely and simply wonderfulthe new york times book reviewthe miraculous transformative stories of various antidotes range across the world of history and science alighting on figures both real and imaginary the stories within are those of obsession and brilliance of the ultimately human recognition that the world is larger than we believe it to be and that we as figures within it have through understanding the power to change that world whether through learning or madness or accident the scientists and students within various antidotes expose us to the glorious blossom of the natural world