Books

When you think of SeaWorld, you most likely think of orcas, school trips to the aquarium, or eating chicken fingers while contemplating the ethics of marine mammal captivity. But this Halloween, the theme park franchise wants to make…

The piece appeared in a remarkable anthology from 1996, Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace, published by Seal Press, a sort of consciousness-raising meeting in book form. One of the anthology’s editors, Elizabeth Reba…

For better or for worse, romance lovers have never been hornier for hockey. Now, the National Hockey League wants to cash in.As part of its new “Hot for Hockey,” campaign, the NHL is rolling out romance novel-inspired short stories starring…

Seventy years ago last summer, a group of scientists met at Dartmouth College to discuss a wild idea—that machines might one day be capable of humanlike thought processes. One of those scientists, John McCarthy, had suggested a name for the…

What I came to understand is that the only people crazy enough to deploy or release a biological weapon into the community, knowing full well that the blowback would be extraordinary and would create a pandemic around the world, would be…

Authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor speak to Dr Aimee Walsh about the rise of the far-right and climate collapse, showing how community action is our hope to defeat modern fascism.12:35, 22 Sep 2026View 3 ImagesNaomi Klein (pictured)…

My colleague Paresh Dave and I each spent a day in federal court in Oakland, California, this week, monitoring the latest Meta child safety trial.In case you missed it in the spring, Meta (along with YouTube) lost a landmark social media…

As every sports fan knows, it’s not just about the game. And in the world of veterans’ rugby, the highs, lows and boozy escapades of the players can be almost as entertaining as the matches themselves.Just ask debut author Paul Mosley, a…

Every parent of young children has a book they’re sick of reading aloud, whether it’s The Rainbow Fish or Goodnight Moon. In recent years, however, moms and dads are facing a fresh misery when it comes to bedtime stories: AI-generated slop…

Last year, when the novelist Laura Brooke Robson began writing Love Is an Algorithm—a love story between the cofounder of an AI dating app and a musician trying to survive in the age of large language models—she took extra care not to sound…