How Haruki Murakami and other writers are grappling with our surreal post-pandemic reality
The City and Its Uncertain Walls' bears Murakami's hallmarks, including references to jazz and the Beatles. It also joins ...
Irish Independent on MSN9h
‘I rarely recommend a book if it doesn’t make me laugh’, Caoilinn Hughes tells Rick O’Shea about her favourite books
I’m hoping you have read Caoilinn Hughes. In the last six years, Orchid and the Wasp and The Wild Laughter established her as one of Ireland’s smartest, finest new novelists. The Alternatives is one ...
Springfield Business Journal13h
Memories Over Materialism: Millennials, Gen Z shop for experiences more than stuff, and businesses are responding
The spending habits of younger generations show they’re more interested in exchanging money for memories rather than material ...
Smithsonian Magazine14h
ChatGPT or Shakespeare? Readers Couldn’t Tell the Difference—and Even Preferred A.I.-Generated Verse
A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their simple and straightforward images, emotions and ...
Review: In ‘All We Imagine as Light,’ the big-city blues yield to a sublime sisterhood
Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, writer-director Payal Kapadia's intimate spell of a movie shows a complex side of India that ...
‘The City and Its Uncertain Walls’ Review: Murakami’s Time Machine
The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami returns to a world he first imagined as a young writer, in a new story of dreams and ...
‘Some People Call It the City of Dreams, But I Don’t’
Payal Kapadia’s new film, All We Imagine As Light, is a shimmering portrait of a Mumbai where everyone goes and nobody feels ...
Observer2d
A Wealthy Tech Minimalist’s A.I. Wingman: Love and Claude in NYC
New York practically invented emotional detachment; having a digital friend who knows your hopes, dreams and fears might not ...