The historic Mayfair mansion spans five floors and was originally built in 1902. Read more
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‘Poor Things’ Will Be in Theaters on September 8th
From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation. Watch trailer
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The Mad Dreams of the Tech Billionaires
A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century–the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism–being sold by four billionaires… Read more
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Moses McKenzie’s ‘Profound’ Debut Novel Wins Hawthornden Prize for Literature
The Hawthornden Prize is awarded annually to a British, Irish or British-based author for a work of “imaginative literature”, including poetry, novels, history, biography and creative non-fiction — published in the previous calendar year. Read more
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This Book Created Italian Food as We Know It
In the early days of unified Italy, Pellegrino Artusi helped forge a national cuisine. Read more
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The Blurb Problem Keeps Getting Worse
Publishing has come to depend on fawning endorsements, but not every title can be electrifying, essential, and revelatory. Read more
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AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Federal Judge Rules
A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection. Read more
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Alice Winn Wins 2023 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
The novel, inspired by archive clippings from a student newspaper, chronicles the love story between two first world war soldiers. It was announced as the winner at a ceremony in London on Thursday evening. Read more
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Gastronomical Delights Inspired By The Queen of Crime
Like Hercule Poirot, who appears in her first detective novel, Christie loved good food, but this collection of recipes doesn’t examine what she ate and drank herself. Rather, it examines the different ways she incorporates various meals, dishes, drinks, and ingredients into her novels. Occasionally she wields food as a weapon, but more often meals serve as plot devices. In her stories, food develops characters or invokes settings, whether familiar or foreign. Read more
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The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin
Her powerful imagination turned hypothetical elsewheres into vivid worlds governed by forces of nature, technology, gender, race and class a far cry from our own. By 1975, when she became the first author to have had multiple novels win both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, she had changed science fiction forever. Read more
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