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…
'Summer books 2021 – Our contributors provide their seasonal reading lists' www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/summer-books-2021
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Authors of injustice
Good, bad and loud feminist writing
Free Speech vs Safe Space: the Great Campus Divide
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The world's most mysterious manuscript
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Peak bullshit
India's broken legacy
Ian Nairn, route master
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Jane Austen at 200
'Let me be clear...'
Robert Frost's aggression
'Who shall we kill today?'
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