An idea takes off like wildfire, changing our world forever, as a deadly virus suddenly explodes into the population. We live in a world that’s more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks of disease of misinformation, even of violence that appears, spread, and fade away with bewildering speed. Adam Kucharski, an…
Daniel Susskind’s A World Without Work show why advances in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. Susskind argues that machines no longer need to reason like us in order to outperform us. Tasks that used to be beyond the capability of computers –from diagnosing illness to drafting legal contracts-…
Lisa Balabanlilar, Rice University specialist on early modern Asian history, comes to life, in her sensitive biography of Jahangir, the fourth of the six great Mughal Emperors of India, the oldest son of Akbar the Great who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian subcontinent and the father of Shah Jahan, the builder of…
Style icon, bestselling author and former Vogue creative director, Andre Leon Talley reveals what truly happens behind the scenes in the world of high fashion. During Andre Leon Talley’s first magazine job assisting Andy Warhol at interview, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfield began a decade-long friendship and propelled Talley into the upper…
The Avery’s most lasting legacy was the inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global economy. Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate as the British government offered enormous bounties for his capture alive or preferably dead. Every’s most lasting legacy was the inadvertent triggering of a major shift in the…
Trade conflicts caused by governments promoting the interest of the elite at the expense of workers. Across the world, the rich have prospered while workers can no longer afford to buy what they produce have lost their jobs, or have been forced into higher levels of debt. The class wars of rising inequality are a…
In Martin Sandbu’s The Economic of Belonging, a innovative and pervasive new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society fuelled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised, make a case to win back the left behind -those abandoned as economic jetsam by the rising tide of…
The last Kings of Shanghai is the multigenerational epic story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong and their families who helped to shape modern China and the central role of businesspeople at a time when twentieth-century China was still emerging from political self-isolation. In Shanghai,1936, the Cathay Hotel located on…
Whistleblower, Edward Snowden explained why he decide to tell about American surveillance and said “They can literally watch your thoughts form as you type”. The system the US National Security Agency contractor uncovered had capabilities far beyond those the public image are available from watching spy movies as they could not only review stored account…
Juan Pablo Villalobos, a Mexican comic novelist who writes about Mexican violence and impunity, blending satire with flights of imagination. The fourth novel of Juan Pablo Villalobos, I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me, is chaotic but intense narrative. The story is about a Mexican student who becomes embroiled in a gangsters’ turf…