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Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in. ..

Only a terminally blithe technocrat could imagine that Reform will be punished for failing to grasp how the system works. ..

Chemical reactions reflect human dramas, which reflect celestial movements, which reflect the mind of the divine. The. ..

Gaston Bachelard is inviting us to go beyond what we think we know. That is, how to counter boring intuitions with. ..

It is one of the wonders of the world. You round a corner from the Met’s entrance hall and see the sculpture deep in a. ..

To read The Palestinians nearly half a century later is to recognise that the many defeats the Palestinian population. ..

The life of the tenth Ottoman sultan, Suleyman, known in Europe as the Magnificent and in Turkey as the Lawgiver, has. ..

Above all, Jackson presents James as a ‘king of words’. No king before or since has written so thoughtfully about. ..

Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who. ..

For Rimsky-Korsakov, the key of A was clear pink; for Scriabin, it was green. Duke Ellington read the flight patterns of. ..

Reading the work​ that Susan Howe has produced over the past half century, one marvels at the consistency and depth of. ..

The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, however. ..

What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman. ..

In September​, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise. ..

The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 47 No. 23

A rash of data centers planned for western Pennsylvania has residents and environmentalists on edge. The sprawling complexes will be powered by plants that burn fracked natural gas, whose production has caused air and water pollution in the region and has known health risks.

We Can, a new comic‑book and animation series, asks bluntly: if we can achieve miracles, why are we still promoting destruction?

Brontez Purnell on relationships, recovery, and writing as thinking

by Benjamin Selwyn

More than fifty years since its thirty thousand inhabitants—most of them Greek-Cypriots—fled before the advancing Turkish army, the resort city of Varosha on Cyprus’s southeastern coast has been reborn. Now, from 8 AM to 6 PM every day, visitors are free to enter this modern wasteland through a casually guarded gate and wander a small portion of its once-thriving streets. From what I’ve seen, the tourism may be less dark than dumb, kitschifying the skeletal city into yet another selfie backdrop.