Books
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A.I. Will Fix the World. The Catch? Robots in Your Veins.
THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER: When We Merge With A.I., by Ray Kurzweil A central conviction held by artificial intelligence boosters,…
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A Day-Glo New York Where Artists Could Afford the Rent
In his beautiful memoir, “Do Something,” Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and…
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What Happened to the Well-Mannered Cat Burglar?
In “A Gentleman and a Thief,” Dean Jobb vividly recounts the life and times of the notorious criminal — and…
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Have Refrigerators Spoiled Everything?
FROSTBITE: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves,byNicola Twilley Consider the improbable fact of the supermarket banana. In…
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4 Fun, Flirty New Romance Novels
It’s a great setup for a joke: A superhero walks into a gay bar and gets rescued from avid fans…
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How a Boston Physician Conquered the Thriller Genre
After getting her start by self-publishing, Freida McFadden is now the fastest selling thriller writer in the United States.
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Like Shakespeare’s Sonnets, ‘Practice’ Finds Beauty in Digression
Starring an undergraduate student at Oxford, Rosalind Brown’s debut novel is exquisitely attuned to the thrill and boredom of academic…
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An Ode to Gardens That’s Also a Bouquet of Ideas
In her latest book, Olivia Laing makes an impassioned case for the garden — as repository of natural beauty, as…
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A Love Letter to Cricket, the Bookish Child’s Bible
I first encountered Cricket, the literary magazine for children, at the home of my best friend, Elaine. Elaine was the…
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In New York City’s Subway System, There’s Beauty in the Mundane
“Contemporary Art Underground” showcases hundreds of artworks commissioned by the M.T.A., by artists like Alex Katz, Kiki Smith and Vik…