In her new memoir, Burn Book, Kara Swisher cites a 2014 profile that dubbed her “Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist.” She might prefer to downplay the first and emphasize the second. Some people would switch that around. But there is no dispute about Swisher’s impact: When it comes to tech punditry, she’s at … Read more
I have also noticed that almost every woman has struggled with disordered eating somewhere along the way in their life, and at a clinical level it is also highly, highly prevalent. And yet I don’t see the issue being seated in the public intellectual sphere with the same kind of serious attention that other mental … Read more
Gabrielle Korn’s first book Everyone (Else) is Perfect, a memoir about—among other things—the author’s rise from Autostraddle columnist to the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of Nylon Media, came out three years ago during the height of the pandemic, a notoriously rough time for debut authors. Now, she’s watching her first novel Yours for the Taking, a work … Read more
Inside story of real-life spy who discovered Holocaust – but went completely ignored (Image: Getty) Yet Winthrop Pickard Bell’s claims largely fell on deaf ears and a genuine opportunity to avert global calamity was missed, a new book claims. “Winthrop was the first who left a publishing trail warning about Hitler’s plans,” says Jason Bell, … Read more
When AI researcher Melanie Mitchell published Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans in 2019, she set out to clarify AI’s impact. A few years later, ChatGPT set off a new AI boom—with a side effect that caught her off guard. An AI-generated imitation of her book appeared on Amazon, in an apparent scheme to … Read more
Tree Wisdom: a guide to nature’s restorative energy and wellbeing (Image: Getty) The UK itself is home to 123 million of them and has many historic giants, like the 1,000-year-old Allerton Oak in Liverpool. Sadly, over the last century, Britain has lost 50 per cent of its ancient woodland – planted before or during the … Read more
Clooney’s ‘Boys In The Boat’ misses British Olympic triumph (Image: Getty) Exclusive – It’s the Chariots of Fire-style true story of a scrappy working class team of rowers from Washington state who beat posh and privileged Ivy League university rivals to qualify for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where they overcame immense odds to win gold. … Read more
Many of us discovered our love for reading through young adult books. They were truth-tellers, examining themes like friendship, loss, puberty, mental health, and sex in ways that gently let us know we weren’t alone in our thoughts or experiences. Now, to revisit those books is to return to a time when life seemed both … Read more
