Men novelists have been named as winners of the Romantic Novel Awards for the first time, ending over 57-years in which female writers held a monopoly on affairs of the heart. Kerry Wilkinson and Marius Gabriel are first men to be honoured at the ceremony under their own names since the awards were founded in…
The world is changing faster now, in 1958 an average lifespan of a company was 60 years and now the lifespan is less than 20. Bestselling science writer Leonard Mlodinow, we are going to need less linear, logical analytic reasoning and more creative “elastic thinking”. We should be allowing more ideas to emerge bottom-up from…
Digital tool, you presume as a transparent and democratising “disrupters”, but as currently deployed algorithms pose a major threat to the human rights of marginalised groups. Safiya Umoja Noble, an assistant professor of information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, pens her experience in her latest book Algorithms of Oppression. Noble used Google…
Lara Feigel, an academic at King’s College, London asked two of her friends at the dance floor fill up, after reading Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, the 1962 feminist novel about mid-century women’s attempts to live freely and about the artistic and sexual life of Anna Wulf, a character whose experiences mirror many of Lessing’s…
Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als in his first book reveals a provocative collection of race, class, sexuality and identity in America. His “ white girls” features the like of Michael Jackson, Eminem, Louise Brooks, Malcolm X, Truman Capote, Richard Pryor and Flannery O’Connor. Using his subjects to analyse literature, photography, films, music, television, performance, race,…
Laura Bates considers herself lucky not have been sexually assaulted although she had met harassers, masturbators and gropers. She recounts the time when a stranger in a crowd in Covent Garden was pressing into her only to find he had ejaculated down her back. This is timely book after the stories of abuse which…
Taleb, a financial options trader turned author and flaneur who delights in blitzing the many intellectuals he disrespects. He Devotes one section of Skin in the Game to criticising the practice of “those who can do; those who can’t, teach” complaint. In Taleb’s earlier bestselling book of Fooled by Randomness (2001), a groundbreaking and farsighted…
The former Sunday Times dating columnist, Dolly Alderton’s memoir irons out the mythology of modern love, by recollecting dodgy hook-ups, failed relationships and weird flings with unfiltered honesty. Her tale of drunken romps through London, drug dealers called Fergus and Pricey late-night cab rides up the M1, She lists email parodies and recipes like the…
Urban ecologist Schilthuizen studying how our manmade environments and in a world of adapt or die, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is being forced to adopt fascinating new ways of surviving and often thriving. Darwin Comes to Town paints several eye-popping examples to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which human…
The San Francisco-based host of TV show Bloomberg Technology, Emily Chang’s Brotopia offers an important examination of why technology industry is so dominated by men – and how women are pushing back, and have gone from whispering about sexism in the Valley to yelling about it. Chang’s journey to the memory lane and history of…