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David Shariatmadari

@d_shariatmadari

Literary editor at The Guardian covering non fiction, formerly opinion editor. Wrote a book about how language works: Don't Believe A Word. I don't post here.

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'While Niven’s trademark black humour and blistering language remain intact, there is added vulnerability, emotional candour and bottomless love' - Fiona Sturges on t's "vivid, visceral" memoir theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

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"It is the collapse of empires and rise of nations that breeds intolerance," argues Pratinav Anil in his review of Charlotte Lydia Riley's new history of empire in modern Britain theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

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'Refreshingly in our data-worshipping age, Sumpter insists that mere facts are not everything' - Steven Poole reviews David Sumpter's Four Ways of Thinking theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

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'Were you to invite them all to dinner you would need an impossibly varied menu (salmon, seal, insects, bamboo, honey) and impractical seating arrangements (a sun bear may weigh 60lb; a grizzly, 600lb)' – Ed Posnett on the bears in Gloria Dickie's new book theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

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'Hester visits Forster's room at King’s College and finds it is now a mundane space with a football table and Ikea sofa' - Brian Dillon reviews Diarmuid Hester's new study of seven queer lives theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

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"Beautifully researched and deeply moving, her account brought me to tears more than once" -John Simpson' powerful review of Larisa Brown's book about the western withdrawal from Afghanistan and its aftermath theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

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"Ruth loved her two daughters and her grandchildren, and she thought of her life as happy: why bring it to a premature end?" - Blake Morrison reviews Natasha Walter's account of attempting to come to terms with her mother's suicide theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

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"He exposes the absurdity of the claims of some Brexiters that leaving the European single market would reduce bureaucracy and red tape, and promote free trade" - Jonathan Portes reviews Peter Foster's Brexit post-mortem theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

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I spoke to Mustafa Suleyman about how he went from selling smoothies in Camden to co-founding the world's most advanced AI research outfit - oh, and whether we can stop technology from destroying civilisation as we know it theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

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"Rebanks does an excellent job of writing women’s labour back into the story of the English farm. The result is a tart anti-pastoral" - Kathryn Hughes reviews Helen Rebanks' warts-and-all account of rural life theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

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"At the very core of effective altruist thought is an attempt to recognise our painful reality for what it is" - in a rare original essay for the Guardian, William MacAskill sets out his store theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

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I think this would be good. Twitter being knocked off its absurd pedestal as a driver of news and discourse. Might be like waking up from a weird dream. bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

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Politics of HS2 cancellation are pretty odd. The public don't feel the pinch from the high costs, all they see is a government that can't build a train line. And stopping it at Old Oak Common just makes it more of a joke at their expense...the railway that goes nowhere

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If your X news feed is full of the most hateful and hostile expressions, it is because the recommendation algorithm amplifies the most incendiary content: arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941 We find that out-group animosity drives engagement on social media: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

If your X news feed is full of the most hateful and hostile expressions, it is because the recommendation algorithm amplifies the most incendiary content: arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941

We find that out-group animosity drives engagement on social media: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…