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Last modified on Sat 26 Jun 2021 04.58 EDT In September 2017, David Simon, creator of The Wire, tweeted a photograph of golfers calmly lining up their putts on a Florida course as wildfires raged in the background. “In the pantheon of visual metaphors for America today, this is the money shot,” he wrote of the picture, which was taken by an amateur photographer who spotted the photo-op as she was about to skydive out of a plane. Everything about this story – the image, the circumstances ...

The GameStop frenzy is likely to among the biggest finance stories of 2021. It centred on large groups of small investors who worked together via internet forums to drive up the price of stocks such as GameStop, a US video game retailer.

Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors Credit...Rebecca Clarke May 27, 2021 “The warts-and-all version is almost always a disappointment, and they risk a retroactive taint,” says the novelist, whose forthcoming book is “Should We Stay or Should We Go.” What books are on your night stand? Two books to prime for my next novel: Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer” and Charles Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.” One exercis...

10 New Books We Recommend This Week May 6, 2021 Our recommended books this week offer revisionist views of a couple of historical figures: In “The Invention of Miracles,” her biography of the often-lionized Alexander Graham Bell, the writer Katie Booth takes a dim view of his efforts to eradicate deafness and its culture, while in “The Bomber Mafia,” Malcolm Gladwell looks favorably on the much-criticized Gen. Curtis LeMay and his ruthless Japanese bombing campaign late in World War II....

John Lanchesters sharp new story collection considers the dark side of technology, from smartphones to selfie sticks. But you dont have to be a Luddite to appreciate this smart, scary book.

The Stories In Reality Have Some Bite W.W. Norton You dont have to be a full-on Luddite to have a healthy fear of technology. Anyone whos seen movies like Ring or Westworld or Black Mirror, might find themselves a little creeped out by the gadgets, programs and apps that have taken over our lives, especially over the last year. (Zoom has entered the chat.) In his new short story collection, Reality, British author John Lanchester considers the dark side of technology, from smartphones to s...

WW Norton A year ago this week, I sent my students off on Spring Break: That was the last time we were physically present in a room together. We returned after break, reconstituted as pixels on a laptop screen, each of us in our own little Zoom frames, Nietzsches "prison house of self" for the digital age. Im grateful to be able to teach online and stay safe, but on the evenings when this semesters classes end and we all wave goodbye, and then, suddenly, everyone disappears — it...

Listen • 6:51 A year ago this week, I sent my students off on Spring Break: That was the last time we were physically present in a room together. We returned after break, reconstituted as pixels on a laptop screen, each of us in our own little Zoom frames, Nietzsches "prison house of self" for the digital age. Im grateful to be able to teach online and stay safe, but on the evenings when this semesters classes end and we all wave goodbye, and then, suddenly, everyone disap...

BBC Sounds - Open Book - Available Episodes Open Book Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics Episodes (577Available)

The hospitality sector is due to open for outdoor use on April 12 before opening up indoors on May 17.