For Jenny Lau, a London-based musician, writer and creator of Celestial Peach – a platform dedicated to stories about Chinese identity, food and culture – community is the driving force behind her literary debut. “I’ve never subscribed to a very traditional lifestyle and that’s when I realised how much community has fallen by the wayside … Read more
Every few months, out of curiosity, I red-pill myself. Usually, I start with YouTube. The algorithm is extraordinarily responsive: give a couple of videos a thumbs-up, and your whole feed swerves in a new ideological direction. My political default is center-left, and so the move is to shift it rightward. There’s Ben Shapiro debating a … Read more
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While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Global refugee counts have steadily increased every year for the last 12 years, according to reports from the United Nations High … Read more
Embers of the Hands, by Eleanor Barraclough (Norton). This lively history of the Viking Age—which lasted from roughly 750 to 1100 C.E.—moves beyond tales of seafaring warriors to capture everyday people: women, children, merchants, healers, walrus hunters. Given the scant evidence of these histories in the written record, Barraclough seeks them instead in archeological artifacts, … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As intelligent machines evolve from novelties to necessities, entrepreneurs face a stark choice: Leverage these powerful tools or be eclipsed by them. In this video, I recommend the top five AI books that every entrepreneur needs to read in 2025. These are not just books about AI … Read more
Taiwan Travelogue, by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from the Chinese by Lin King (Graywolf). Presented as a translation of an out-of-print Japanese text, this National Book Award-winning metafictional novel takes place in colonial-era Taiwan, and follows a Japanese writer on a trip during which she falls in love with her local translator. Yáng details their sumptuous … Read more
In October 2005, BBC presenter Steve Madden was standing in Shaftesbury Avenue when he saw a woman on the 38 bus, her figure framed by the misted-up window, which reflected the lights from the street. He took a snapshot and, years later, struck by a similar scene, he had the idea for a photography series. … Read more
Iran has been in our eyes and ears throughout the last year. Its direct and open confrontation with Israel has marked a substantial change from the clandestine shadow war that has been ongoing since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Steven R. Ward’s book Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence: A Concise History provides … Read more
What dishes did Denver try making at home in 2024? Part of that answer can be found within the city’s libraries, which loaned cookbooks to thousands of hungry readers over the year. They include volumes on purely soups, one-pan meals and healthy and sustainable cooking. Ina Garten’s memoir from this year was a New York … Read more
Giant Love, by Julie Gilbert (Pantheon). Fusing biography and Hollywood history, this book chronicles the creation of Edna Ferber’s novel “Giant” and its transformation into a film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. Ferber, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright (and the author’s great-aunt), spent nearly thirteen years “assembling the stones and bricks and mortar … Read more
