PAST MASTER: Dame Mary at the Colosseum in Rome (Image: PA) Bear with me, but how often do you think about Ancient Rome? I’m only asking because this slightly bizarre …
Journalist Taylor Lorenz isn’t the first to declare legacy media a dead industry walking. But few voice it with the conviction that she does—and an even more vigorous claim that …
Logie award-winning actress Joy Chambers-Grundy has died aged 76. Chambers-Grundy was a best-selling author, poet, philanthropist and businesswoman. She died in her sleep on Saturday morning, surrounded by loved ones. …
I meet with Walter Isaacson in a small conference room in the offices of book publisher Simon & Schuster. The walls are festooned with framed covers, including of course Isaacson’s …
Oakland author, artist and former Stanford instructor Jenny Odell is perhaps best known for her 2019 best seller, “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” which was named one …
She has a knack for putting into words what she sees around herself and her books have sold more than 10,000 copies, but Abhijita Gupta has her heart set on …
Now that we’ve all had experience with large language models, their limitations are all too visible. Yes, they can write. But their prose doesn’t explode in the mind like the …