This week: How far off is a world in which robots do most of our jobs? Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Benjamin Schneider, a DPhil Candidate in Economic and Social History at Merton College, Oxford, to explore Artificial Intelligence, societal change, real and imagined, and the future of work; what will our writers, from Andrew Motion to Joyce Carol Oates, be reading this summer?; plus, it’s Independent Bookshop Week and the nominations came thick and fast…
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Slave driver, the table is turn
How to be alone
Townies and gownies
‘How does it smell?’
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‘It’s not him, it’s us’
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‘A very peculiar telegram’
The kangaroo curve
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