How the Mr Men made their millions
When an ad man turned an idle doodle into a children’s book 50 years ago, it was the start of…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Alex Renton, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, Elif Shafak, and Michelle Zauner
Blood Legacy by Renton, Inflamed by Marya and Patel, The Island of Missing Trees by Shafak and Crying in H Mart by Zauner.
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Why Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School failed to change the world
The Frankfurt School has been blamed for starting the culture wars that destroyed American values. Would we do well to…
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Jeanette Winterson’s vision of the future of AI is messianic – but unconvincing
In 12 Bytes, the British author has fallen for and colluded with the Big Data hype, and it is hard to…
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Living in Fernando Pessoa’s world
How the Portuguese writer’s multiple identities pre-empted the modern condition.
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I thought I knew where I sat on the bookcase debate – but the random approach has taken me by surprise
A YouGov poll shows most people put little thought into how their bookshelves are organised. That’s how it should be.
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The future of work: the problem with millennial productivity books
A new publishing trend claims to make millennials work better. But how many young people have agency over their working lives?
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Sarah Ferguson’s new Mills & Boon novel is strangely unsexy
This long-winded, 560-page “romance” is full of plot twists and turns, punctuated by only the occasional kiss.
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