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“#Twitter bashes New York Magazine’s book of gushing essays on AOC” New York Magazine is getting slammed on social media for putting out a book of essays by contributors who trip over themselves to pay homage to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The upcoming book, “Take up Space: The Unprecedented AOC,” is a collection of essays and articles…
“# Tech transformation: Don Tapscott’s ‘Platform Revolution’ book review ” Enterprise blockchain started to take shape in 2016, a time when companies like IBM began to leverage private networks for supply chain management. It was also during 2016 that author Don Tapscott wrote and published Blockchain Revolution, a book that examines the way that blockchain…
“#Art critic Dave Hickey, known for book ‘Air Guitar’, dies” Dave Hickey, a prominent American art critic whose essays covered topics ranging from Siegfried & Roy to Norman Rockwell, has died. His books, including “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty” (1993) and “Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy” (1997), won him legions of fans…
“#Media have ditched middle class, book argues” As books go, 2020 was meritocracy’s annus horribilis. Daniel Markovits warned of “The Meritocracy Trap,” while “The Tyranny of Merit” earned Michael Sandel several book-of-the-year awards. Both books pointed to meritocracy’s potential to legitimize inequality beyond the point of tolerability. They overlooked, however, the media’s role in covering…
“#Ex-Babbo server dishes on glamour and grind of Batali Inc.” In January 2001, Kim Reed was just 22 and from a small town in upstate New York when she walked into the job of her dreams: Working at West Village hotspot Babbo. Hired as hostess, then reservationist, and finally as the assistant to Joe Bastianich,…
“#How Chloe Gong used TikTok to turn her YA book into a bestseller” When Chloe Gong was brainstorming where to set her Romeo and Juliet-inspired YA book “These Violent Delights,” the answer seemed pretty clear: 1920s Shanghai. “My parents were always talking about it as a glamorous time in Shanghai, based on the stories they’d…
“#Canadians paid the price for British mistakes in Dieppe, says British historian” In his book Operation Jubilee, military historian Patrick Bishop offers a retelling of the raid during the war in 1942 and its cost to Canadian lives The failure of the Second World War raid on Dieppe on Aug. 19, 1942—which saw 3,367 Canadians…
“#Six books to read this winter” Engaging new reads for the holiday season 12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson 12 Bytes: How we got here. Where we might go next By Jeanette Winterson (Grove, Oct. 12) The author of Frankissstein (2020) has an abiding interest in the relationship between humans and their technology. In the dozen…
“#The crime novel second acts of Chris Hadfield and Beverley McLachlin” This fall is a season for new or newly announced crime novels penned by people famous in other fields A former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, a former U.S. secretary of state, a former commander of the International Space Station, even…
“#Our ancient ancestors may have been more civilized than we are” A new book offers a version of history in which we lived for thousands of years in large and complex societies without kings or cops We like to think of ourselves as living in scientific times, but what if the familiar story of “civilization”…