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Carlo Ginzburg was a formidable traveler. You might have written to him several times over the course of a few weeks, and he would have replied once from the Paris airport, another time from a hotel in Sibiu, the next from Saint Petersburg or Los Angeles,

Longlist for the FT and Schroder Business Book of the Year 2025 Named word of the year in US, UK and Australia 'Enshittification' will be the most talked about tech book of the year. "Enshittification" is Doctorow's word to describe the decay of online pl

In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by

All Jameson titles are currently on sale as part of his 91st birthday celebration. Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy as Fredric Jameson. In celebration of what would-be his ninety

The book publishing industry is in crisis. Why is it so hard to talk about the labour that goes into making books?

On 6 January, at the New York Times Square Hotel, the 134-year-old American Dialect Society voted that 'Enshittification' should be named as the 'Digital Word of the Year' for 2023. The decision came after a vote, presided over by Ben Zimmer, chair of the

What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The Eye of the Master argues,

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We had been looking for a book on drugs for some time, even if we were not sure what it was exactly that we were looking for. I was introduced to Ben Fong through a former colleague, Chris Crawford. When Ben told me he was working on a book about drugs I

The sentence was pronounced on 28 May 1934: three years' exile in Cherdyn, in the Perm district of the Urals, following the instruction handed down 'from above': 'Isolate, but preserve.' In view of the seriousness of the offence, this was an extraordinari