"While the Walkman was far smaller and lighter than any tape deck that had come before, it remained stubbornly large. The technology of the day precluded Sony’s engineers, who were renowned as wizards of miniaturization, from whittling _...Read More_

>"The shadowy history of a modest emotion"

>"Restoration experts spent years preserving the artworks, which are now on view as the royal residence reopens _...Read More_

"The Autocene is a period in which all of Earth’s systems have been altered by machines. The design challenge is directing the trajectory—the Autocene we have today may be the antithesis or apotheosis of the Autocene to come."

>"I have always viewed writing fiction as moral work, but never before had it felt so urgent."

>"My father was troubled, moody, and struggled with alcoholism. Making dinner for our family was what brought him back to us."

>"New edition of Cambridge Latin Course to include more prominent female characters and better reflect empire’s _...Read More_

>"A poetic, geographic, and botanical journey of perfume discovery."

"In 1917, pastoral scenes gave way to smoking chimneys and telegraph wires on porcelain manufactured by a factory in St Petersburg, writes Deborah Nicholls-Lee."

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>"A new feminist utopian novel imagines a world without men. The problem is they’re never really gone."

>"With the release of the director’s latest body horror Crimes of the Future, Guardian writers have singled out their most-loved Cronenberg offerings"

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"Back in the late 2000s, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was the world’s coolest neighborhood. And if lifestyle blogs were to be believed, everyone in Williamsburg rode a bike. But not everyone in New York did, and then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg _...Read More_