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If we needed yet another reason to love "Fast Car" 👇 Did you know that Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" is one of the best songs you can play when testing speaker quality? The Wirecutter show asked audio expert Brent Butterworth to explain why on this week's episode Listen here:

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Finally read Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid. The Borges and Kafka comparisons are fair enough, but this is gloriously, obscenely original, wonderfully Romanian. Belongs with Books of Jacob, Rings of Saturn, 2666, Septology and We Do Not Part as one of the new century’s best novels.

After a lifetime of beloved work, my mom Mia Farrow is nominated The Tony Awards. She was in every scene of The Roommate, talking ceaselessly, going from light comedy to bleak despair. Hope I’ll still be pushing myself like that when I’m eighty (or at least have skin that good).

Perplexity is back up and running on WhatsApp again: : +1 (833) 436-3285 Have fun forwarding messages to it for fact checks, or directly chatting for answers and free form text conversations and creating images.

Zoho suspends ambitious $700 million plan to foray into chip manufacturing having struggled to find the right technology partner. Adani group also pauses talks with Israel's Tower Semiconductor for $10 billion chip project, Reuters reports. thehindu.com/business/zoho-…

The National Gallery has just acquired a fascinating early 16th-century Northern Renaissance altarpiece in a private treaty sale through Sotheby’s. Dating from about 1510, ‘The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret’ will go on public display for the first time in 60

Sylvester Stallone still has the turtles from the movie Rocky, and they are over 40 years old.

I interviewed the brilliant Edward Wilson-Lee about his new book The Grammar of Angels. We explore the life of Renaissance occult philosopher Pico della Mirandola, and also the book's wider interest in magical language, the sublime, and the limits of individualism. Link follows…

Two years ago, I received ₹50,000 from an international account. I wasn’t expecting any money, so I went to the bank to check. It turned out the transfer was from a man named Rizwan, working in Saudi. Due to a small error in the account number, the money had landed in my

Where I write about the unusual friendship of two revolutionaries during the Raj, my Punjabi grandfather Virendra & Jatin Das’s brother, Kiron. For more read #Pratap A Defiant Newspaper. Chander Mohan HarperCollins TTOpinion #BritishRaj #Bengal telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-diff…

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We are thrilled to launch the 2025 4thWrite Short Story Prize, in association with the The Guardian, for Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic writers. We want to read your story, whatever it may be. Entries are open NOW until the 8 June. 4thestate.co.uk/prize #4thWritePrize

Some news about my next novel. Happy to be reupping at Jonathan Cape. Coming to the UK next March.

“Did you just call me Michelle?” A hilarious blooper from Everything Everywhere All at Once. x.com/CINEYEOH/statu…

A lesson I wish I learned earlier: Your entire life can change in one year. One year of focused daily effort. One year of asking the right questions. One year of being misunderstood. One year of living differently. You’re one year away from people calling you lucky.

ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK is lighting up London 🖤✨ One month since the paperback hit shelves and FIVE weeks straight on the Sunday Times bestseller list 👏 To celebrate, we’ve taken over Vinegar Yard with a billboard that glows bright with UV magic after dark 💡

Unspooling in torrents of dialogue and surreal breaks with reality, MIDNIGHT IS NOT IN EVERYONE’S REACH is a profound meditation on memory and time by António Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest living writer. Coming this summer.

The most interesting thing in tech: Is the AI dystopia --- in which social media turns into a kind of infinitely entertaining and deceptive Westworld --- getting closer? It's starting to seem that way.

ICYMI: Jonathan Cape has acquired Minor Black Figures by Booker Prize-shortlisted author Brandon Taylor (Brandon), “a page-turning New York novel and a beautiful portrait of modern romance”. The book will be published on 5th March 2026 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/jonatha…