More Like No Yield: A New Book Explores How Google Soaked Up The Web’s Ad Profits
The English word “yield,” derived from old English, is a relic of a time when a ruling class…
What Reality Is This?
An invisible class of gatekeepers supports our ability to scroll all day on Instagram or TikTok with limited…
To the Sea by Train: The Golden Age of Railway Travel is a trip down the tracks of time to the great British seaside
The book, beautifully and amusingly written and prodigiously well-informed, is part travelogue and part history. Martin enjoys the…
In ‘Lonely Crowds,’ Fraught Female Friendship Is Also Queer
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Retailer This article first appeared in Book Gossip, a newsletter about what we’re reading…
No Dancing in the Lift, Mandy Sayer review: a vivid memoir
Written as a love letter to her ageing father in his dying days, Mandy Sayer’s No Dancing in…
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock’n’Roll by Alan Edwards — Behind the scenes with a Starman of rock
But to flick through would also be a disservice to Edwards, in what is a self-deprecating but nonetheless…
I Am Giorgia: All the Right stuff —the making of Meloni
Of all the world’s elected female leaders Giorgia Meloni, the proudly Right-wing prime minister of Italy, is one…
Lessons In Liberty From A Hospital Diary by Timothy Snyder — Review
Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for the sake of our bodies, and for the…
The Brain at Rest book review: Can not working help us do more?
If you’re my boss and you catch me in the middle of the working day, sitting at my…