Birrichina4 days agoThe Best of World Literature: The 2022 International Booker Prize Shortlistfivebooks.com - by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy RockwellEach year, the International Booker Prize is awarded to the best work of fiction newly translated into English. The 2022 shortlist offers a great …
BirrichinaWhat If All Men Disappeared and the World Was Just Boring?verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Hillary KellyA new feminist utopian novel imagines a world without men. The problem is they’re never really gone. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Within days of the …
BirrichinaShe Wrote a Dystopian Novel. What Happened Next Was Pretty Dystopian.verified_publisherThe New York Times - Pamela PaulImagine a world in which all the men disappear from the planet in a single moment: Planes they were piloting are left unmanned (literally), their female passengers abandoned in midair; men in bed with their girlfriends mysteriously vanish; boys in the playground dematerialize before their mothers’ …
BirrichinaAlan Alda Is Still Awesomeverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Michael SchulmanThe actor and director talks about his podcast, the comedic chops of Volodymyr Zelensky, and being called an “honorary woman.” Few actors inspire the warm fuzzies like Alan Alda. At eighty-six, he’s still the platonic ideal of “nice dad”: the type of guy you’d find in a cardigan, reading a copy of …
Birrichina‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human historyverified_publisherThe Guardian - Andrew AnthonyLast year a book called The Dawn of Everything announced that most of what we think we know about human history is wrong. Its co-authors, David Graeber and David Wengrow, took aim at the established story that has been repeated by brand writers such as Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari and Steven …
BirrichinaThese 'podfasters' can no longer listen to audiobooks or podcasts at normal speedverified_publisherCNN - By Faith Karimi(CNN) — Dan Sandler has dozens of podcast episodes and audiobooks he wants to listen to, but so little time. So does Brandee Mahn. And Ami Lynn Kane. So they've found a way to keep up. The three are part of a subculture of people who listen to audio content on accelerated speeds -- sometimes up to …
