How not to read JG Ballard
This new biography has done a great writer a disservice
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Elizabeth Strout’s easy answers
In her novels, trauma is never far away – but her new book lays it on thick
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Confessions of a bibliomaniac
As the book appears to be dying off, we might finally be learning to appreciate it
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I read Russell Brand’s unreadable new book, for my sins
The controversial star’s conversion is more cult-like than Christlike
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Publishers don’t know how to deal with AI
Book editors are overworked, under pressure – and sometimes using it themselves
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What we lose when a language dies
Sophia Smith Galer’s book is a rallying cry against linguistic extinction
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AI will dissolve civilisation as we know it
Demis Hassabis has dedicated himself to guiding machine intelligence for the betterment of humanity – but is it listening?
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Ben Lerner has taken autofiction somewhere new
The American novelist’s new book is not truly about ego, or technology, but a more elusive and universal theme
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