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Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
Devastating toxic spill seen as test of whether African countries can stand up to China
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Donna longs to be patronized and dismissed by Elizabeth once more. Bogdan
Richard Osman • The Impossible Fortune: The new novel in the multi-million copy bestselling murder mystery series (The Thursday Murder Club)
Remove the need for tolerant, understanding appearance and you unleash the true feelings of impotence, anger and rage that can lurk beneath.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
the cut - june 11 - 2024What If Motherhood Isn’t Transformative at All?
We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.
By Anastasia Berg, editor of the Point
Art: March Avery, Evening Reading, 1972/© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, and BLUM Los
... See moreEverything, even the bags they packed in three layers of rubbish bags in Istanbul in preparation for the crossing. They have to abandon their only possessions, their most precious things. For Hassan it’s a photo of his dead parents, his parents who would at least have helped him pack his bag if they’d still been alive, and he begins to cry,
... See moreJohn Lambert • Yoga
Her mother’s childhood stories had always been vague. Crisscrossed timelines, missing details. A lot of missing details. Benny had grown up with the feeling that there were things her mother had preferred not to say about her past. She’d grown up hearing that her parents’ upbringing had not been as easy as hers, so she hadn’t insisted on knowing
... See moreCharmaine Wilkerson • Black Cake
I try to absorb his method. It’s about telling her just the right amount – keeping her informed but not overwhelmed – and delivering everything at the right level; not too much jargon, but never patronizing. Above all, it’s about being professional and kind.