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The consequences of the technological revolution may be even more frightening than we thought I suspect your enjoyment or otherwise of James Bridles New Dark Age will depend very much on whether youre a glass half-empty, or a glass exactly-filled-to-the-halfway-mark-by-microprocessor-controlled-automatic-pumping-systems sort of a person. I like to think that while I may have

This hybrid biography cuts between essays from Kristine McKenna and reflections from the great auteur Kristine McKenna admits at the outset of Room to Dream that she and David Lynch have come up with an approach to life writing that some might find strange. This hybrid form combines memoir and biography: each of McKennas chapters

Donna Tartt: the slow-burn literary giant It is dangerous to write openings as compelling as Donna Tartt's. In The Secret History, the one-page prologue gives us a murder and a narrator who has helped to commit it. The Little Friend starts with the death of a child who, by page 15, is found hanging by

Agreement thought to be the largest in states history involving an incarcerated persons death The family of a man who died after starving in an Indiana jail while being held in solitary confinement for three weeks has secured a $7.25m settlement, thought to be the states largest ever in connection with the death of an

Its nail-biting stuff this week, with Harper touching the face of God and happier than weve ever seen her. But then there are the guns on that disastrous hunting trip Spoiler alert: this recap is published after episode three of Industry season two airs on BBC One in the UK. Do not read on