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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 – seems stranger than fiction. A year before Simon’s tweet, in a landmark polemic, The Great De...

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 exercise in reverse research — writing the novel first and then doing the homework: Katie Engelhart’s �...

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. We also like a posthumous essay collection from the beloved travel writer Jan Morris and a new grap...

John Lanchester's sharp new story collection considers the dark side of technology, from smartphones to selfie sticks. But you don't have to be a Luddite to appreciate this smart, scary book.