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Month: July 2023
The Essential John le Carré
…le Carré wrote many good books, and a handful of great ones. A spy must learn to distinguish signal from noise. Here are his best works. Read more
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First ‘Oppenheimer’ Reviews Call Christopher Nolan’s Movie a ‘Total Knockout’
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. Watch trailer
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Counterweight by Djuna
An efficient, fast-paced cyberpunk story . . . The novel’s speculations about human agency resonate in the current moment, when American tech C.E.O.s oscillate between issuing sonorous warnings about the existential risks of the A.I. systems they’re developing and breathless hype about brain-computer interfaces. The book imagines the imminent emergence of companies run by artificial intelligence—companies as intelligence, a fusion of technology and economic logic that will definitively outrun humanity. Read more
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Five Great Books from the Borderlands of Mystery, Horror, and the Psychological Thriller
Scott Adlerberg on masterpieces of the uncanny, marvelous, and strange. Read more
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Milan Kundera, Czech Literary Star and Communist Party Outcast, Dies at 94
The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia. Read more
Charlie Watts’ Book Collection to be Auctioned
His library contained dozens of rare first editions, including signed first editions of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound Of The Baskervilles. Now, two years after his death, some of those gems will be put up for auction. The drummer’s collection of jazz memorabilia is also being sold. Read more
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2023 Dagger Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2023 CWA Daggers, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced. Read more
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How Milwaukee Celebrates the Typewriter’s Long, Local History
Held from June 23 to June 25, QWERTYFEST was an inky paradise for collectors, artists, history buffs, and word nerds alike. The event featured live music, typewriting workshops, typewriter poetry ‘busking,’ and a local market featuring honey made by cemetery bees and a typewriter autographed by well-known typewriter enthusiast Tom Hanks. Read more
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A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
…it’s a pleasure to encounter Dan Schreiber’s “The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird,” a willfully miscellaneous survey of the bizarre beliefs that people have held over the centuries: the kind of random, strange-for-the-sake-of-strange compendium that’s seldom published anymore. Read more
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