Maybe We Already Have Runaway Machines
Most of us aren’t quite sure how we’re supposed to feel about the dramatic improvement of machine capabilities—the class of…
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“My Name Is Barbra,” Reviewed: Streisand’s Mother of All Memoirs
Seventy years ago, before she was galactically famous, before she dropped an “a” from her first name, before she was a Broadway…
A Memoir of Contested Illness That Takes On the Legacy of Hysteria
In her wide-ranging début memoir, “A Matter of Appearance,” Emily Wells recounts an early memory of watching a videotaped…
Book Review: ‘Stranger Things’ actor weaves a romance novel into a WWII disaster
“Nineteen Steps” by Millie Bobby Brown (William Morrow) Book Review: Millie Bobby Brown of 'Stranger Things' weaves a…
The Woman Who Reimagined the Dystopian Novel
In E. M. Forster’s dystopian story “The Machine Stops,” published in 1909, the inhabitants of an underground society live…
Australia’s Avian Conservation Books Four-Pack For Kids — Reviews!
These four books about four different Australian bird species were written for children but they contain interesting…
Review of The Miracle Makers — A hat-tip to Indian, Aussie cricket
In the annals of cricketing history, the Ashes has a special place, and so do games involving India and Pakistan but over the…
A Jewish Immigrant Novelist’s Radical Vision for Working Women
Anzia YezierskaPhotograph from Library of CongressIn the summer of 1920, the writer Anzia Yezierska needed an income. Five…
Max Porter’s Novel of Troubled and Enchanted Youth
Shy, the teen-aged namesake of Max Porter’s new novel, is a character out of the op-ed sections of newspapers—a troubled young…
Has Black Lives Matter Changed the World?
How should we think about the Black Lives Matter movement, now that three years have passed since the worldwide George Floyd…
The Accidental Truth-Tellers of the Post-Privacy Era
It is only in the penultimate chapter of Kerry Howley’s “Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State”…
The Marvellous Boys of Palo Alto
Not long before his death in 2007, my father told me that he “thought he might have” coined the term information technology. It…
