The Immortalization Commission

The most prescient of British public intellectuals

Financial Times

Gray has consistently anticipated the shape of things to come ... he teaches us that true humanism is to be found in uncertainty and doubt

Will Self

The closest thing we have to a window-smashing French intellectual

Andrew Marr

A visionary ... one of the most reliably provocative and heterodox voices in British intellectual life today

New Statesman

Gray is a philosophical maverick, a pricker of bubbles, a deflater of balloons, a true iconoclast for whom our chief competing accounts of existence - the religious and the humanist - are both fatally flawed

Globe and Mail

Deeply thoughtful, brilliantly narrated

Raymond Tallis, Literary Review

A romp of a read ... John Gray is a connoisseur of human idiocy

John Banville, Guardian

Our sharpest critic of utopian fantasies skewers the crazed but enduring dream of cheating age, time and death

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

John Gray, the counter-prophet who scorns all claims that humans can transcend the human condition ... You don't have to agree with Gray to enjoy the fireworks

Marek Kohn, Independent

Elegant ... He is on to something important regarding the delusion that science consists of indefinite progress

Sunday Telegraph

Gray is an engaging writer, an entertaining historian and a controversialist whose opinions can never be taken for granted

New Statesman