Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world theguardian.com Stewart Brand was at the heart of 60s counterculture and is now revered as a tech visionary whose book anticipated the web. Carole Cadwalladr met him...

Rachel Cusk’s singular novel stands out on wide-ranging Booker longlist theguardian.com Second Place is both timeless and up-to-the minute, with big names Richard Powers and Kazuo Ishiguro among strong international finalists...

12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson review standard.co.uk Jeanette Winterson’s essays about the future of artificial intelligence are scary, fascinating and peppered with her wry humour...

Area Dads Have Been Hanging Out a Lot, Will Publish a Book Soon esquire.com A new book from Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama will tackle everything from marriage to masculinity to the state of the American experiment....

Detroit's Festival of Books returns to save us from our screens metrotimes.com Long before we spent every waking minute simultaneously binge-watching TV series we’ve already seen 1,000 times (Gilmore Girls) along with the hottest new...

Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT news.mit.edu A summer reading list featuring books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from Spring 2020 to Summer 2021....