The Budapest Pianist by Roxanne de Bastion (Robinson, £22, 288p) If you visited Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1960s, you may remember a restaurant called Paprika, a souvenir shop called Shakespeare’s Doorstep …
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When a flatterer When an email arrived inviting me to participate in an artificial intelligence company called Rebind that I later thought would radically transform the way book lovers read …
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So, inevitably, we talked a lot more, and meta-ly, about language, words, and meaning, although Sloan doesn’t think it was inevitable that language would be the revolutionary technology of AI. …
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If you have ever You talked to someone and then felt like you would have been better off spending your time talking to a brick wall, you’ll surely relate to …
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Consider a collector who writes a postcard to a loved one from a position of caring and, on the other side of this correspondence, shares an image of someone being …
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China Miéville writes a secret novel with the Internet’s boyfriend (it’s Keanu Reeves)
by Elijah**SPOILERS AHEAD**!!!!!! As the fictional Freud writes about his own impending death, he foresees the death of his sister Dolfi (who will die three years later in historical time, on …
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Inside the world’s deadliest all-inclusive trip: How the conga lines form on Everest, why guides charge up to $1 million… and the surprising secrets that happen at base camp
by JackBOOK OF THE WEEK Everest, Inc. by Will Cockrell (Gallery Books £20, 352 pages) It’s one of the most striking images ever taken on a mountain: The image, from May …
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Trans pioneer who went from being a boy from Liverpool to being a Vogue supermodel. Everyone from Elvis Presley to Peter O’Toole fell in love with April Ashley, who claimed… ‘I could have slept with all four Beatles!’
by JackSo when would you like to go from monsieur to mademoiselle? asked Dr. Georges Burou at his Casablanca clinic. “Immediately,” replied George Jamieson. It was 1960. He was 25 years …
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At its most entertaining, The morning after the revolution focuses on this void. In an episode in which Bowles attends a multi-day course called The Toxic Tendencies of Whiteness, where …
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I chose the clamp because I knew it would be easy to clip onto my thin wooden side table or metal bed frame, and it had no paint or finish …