From moving memoirs to far-reaching fiction, the wonders of science and the lessons of history, novelists, poets and critics pick their best reads of the year:
To be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
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What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to...
Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost us Millions
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In a recent study of 61 hospitals, it was found that they bought 21 different types of A4 paper, 652...
politics
Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir
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What is it like to spend 15 years in prison for a crime you didn’t commit? Paddy Armstrong was...
biography crime true crime
A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels
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A New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating and awe-inspiring. With...
science reference
and 103 other items
Leanne Shapton recommended The Rules of the Game (1939) in Movies (curated)
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Finite Difference and Finite Volume Methods
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Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Finite Difference and Finite Volume Methods...
Solar Energetic Particles: A Modern Primer on Understanding Sources, Acceleration and Propagation
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This concise primer introduces the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles...