Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s economic emergence is nothing short of remarkable. Over the past four decades, it has lifted almost 800mn people out of poverty — and by some measures is already the world’s largest economy. But many […]
The Long History of the Future Nicole Kobie Bloomsbury Sigma (2024) Self-driving cars have been a hot topic for decades. In 2023 in the United Kingdom, the first hands-free car was approved for use on some public roads. It monitors the driver’s eyes to ensure that they watch the road. “In other words, driverless cars […]
It’s really no wonder that there has been this scattering to the winds of people on social media now, as if they didn’t need another reason to migrate to other platforms. I remember that moment when there was Threads, Bluesky, Twitter, Mastodon, and some other ones—and I’m like, this is the fucking War of the […]
Known for her intensely visceral, often autobiographical works, from figurative paintings like Is Nothing Sacred (2023) to “unsanitary” installations—her 1999 My Bed, made up of everyday detritus, was shortlisted for the Turner Prize—British artist Tracey Emin’s career traces a winding evolution, mirroring life’s inconsistencies, triumphs, and tragedies. Spanning a wide scope of media and subjects […]
“Right now, we’re seeing the highest sales of Kindle in more than a decade—20 billion pages are currently read every month,” claims Panay. “And it turns out the majority of this new cohort are millennials and Gen Z—this is the fastest growing segment.” Kevin Keith goes further, explaining that while social media used to be […]
At a rally in September, Donald Trump took a break from talking about Arnold Palmer’s penis and telling various racial and religious groups to get their heads “examined” to plug his wife’s forthcoming memoir. “Go out and get her book,” he said. “She just wrote a book. I hope she said good things about…I don’t […]
But then, too, there was the assurance, the confidence, in the accounts of the biologists as remedy to allay suspicion. Because Sergeant Rocker, too, had then taken to the waters and disappeared, the biologists using their tracking equipment to make sure they could follow the alligators in their new lives. The Tyrant kept to herself, […]
Adapted from How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense by Robin George Andrews. Copyright © 2024 by Robin George Andrews. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. It took a few days to be convinced, Rob Wilcock told me, sipping his coffee in […]
Book publisher Penguin Random House is putting its stance on AI training in print. The standard copyright page on both new and reprinted books will now say, “No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems,” according to a report from […]
Yellowjackets actress Nicole Maines has released a new memoir, It Gets Better . . . Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me. Maines, of course, has been written about before. She and her family were subject of Amy Ellis Nutt’s 2015 book Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of […]
