“Lauren Redniss creates an entirely new genre of biography.” - Nylon Magazine
“Radioactive offer innumerable wonders. Colors suddenly bloom into tremendous feeling, history contracts into a pair of elongated figures locked in an embrace, then expands again in an explosive rush of words. In this wholly original book about passion and discovery Lauren Redniss has invented her own unique form.” - Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love
“[A] sumptuously illustrated visual biography….Radioactive is an incisive look at science’s greatest partnership.” - Vogue
“[An] excellent new book.” - Robert Krulwich, NPR
“[Radioactive is] a deeply unusual and forceful thing to have in your hands. Ms. Redniss’s text is long, literate and supple…Her drawings are both vivid and ethereal…Radioactive is serious science and brisk storytelling. The word ‘luminous’ is a critic’s cliché, to be avoided at all costs, but it fits.” - New York Times
“One of the most beautiful books-as-object that I’ve ever seen.” - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
“Visually dazzling . . . a startlingly original graphic style.” - Slate
“Radioactive is quite unlike any book I have ever read—part history, part love story, part art work and all parts sheer imaginative genius.” - Malcolm Gladwell
“Absolutely dazzling. Lauren Redniss has created a book that is both vibrant history and a work of art. Like radium itself, Radioactive glows with energy.” - Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize