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UK government must show that its AI plan can be trusted to deal with serious risks when it comes to health data
The UK government's new plan to foster innovation through artificial intelligence (AI) is ambitious. Its goals rely on the ...
Bill Gates: How being sent to therapy as a child changed my life
In this exclusive extract from his new memoir ‘Source Code’, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates opens up ...
Zadie Smith: 'I tried to read White Teeth for the anniversary – but didn’t get past the first page’
INTERVIEW: The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over ...
Zadie Smith on her groundbreaking debut, White Teeth, 25 years on: ‘I never think about my novels a year after I’ve written them’
INTERVIEW: The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over ...
Hanif Kureishi Wonders What Dostoyevsky’s Characters Did in Bed
It’s among the more playful matters on his mind in “Shattered,” a memoir of the injury that took away his ability to turn ...
Why I would rather live with strangers than friends in London
The best of mates are often the worst of flatmates. Writer Silvia Saunders on why flat sharing in your twenties with ...
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12 New Non-Fiction Books You Need to Read in 2025
We promise these non-fiction titles are anything but boring and will have you roused (as with the damning tell-all on the ...
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Stephanie Merritt
Two years ago, when Zadie Smith was only twenty-two, her unfinished first novel was sold on a mere eighty pages for a hefty six-figure advance (and yet more for the foreign rights), the sort of news ...
The Independent16d
31 best new books to read, from Sally Rooney to Percival Everett
Zadie Smith’s first foray into historical fiction, The Fraud is based on true events and juxtaposes a portrait of Victorian life and slavery in the Caribbean. The titular fraud in question is ...
The Handbook18d
12 Books Set In London That Will Make You Fall In Love With The City All Over Again
From Zadie Smith’s iconic work that regularly uses her hometown as a backdrop to Martin Amis’ dystopian take on West London in London Fields, here are 12 books based in London to add to your ...