books S | Is coming for your job — but dont panic! ‘Future-proofing’ your career is foolish. We all must embrace tls new w technology. I" tis almost four years since the release of Chat GPT, which made an artificial intelligence large language model (LLM) available to anyone L with a mobile phone. If in that time you haven''t wondered whether Al might at some point be able to do a white: collar jo…
Denmark's women on the edge Compelling fiction by Dorthe Nors and Helle Helle explores solitude, regret and lives not led, writes Matthew Janney wo recently translated Danish novels probe the distances between loneli- ness and connection, through two solitary female protagonists. In Helle Helle’s Hafni Says, a woman on the verge of divorce sets out on a road trip, or as she describes it a “smerreb…
MN Ae Ml 0 ae Mw i 1 HAHA Sl Nt TOM CORNELISSEN Lieke Marsman books a A young womans ouide to living with a death sentence Lieke Marsman kept a diary following the trajectory of her incurable bone cancer. She died this year aged 35. By Kat Lister n the opening pages of Lieke Marsman''’s cerebral exploration of her mortality, we find her on the chondrosarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer — with curi…
دفاعا عن المتقاعدين.. أصحاب الشيبة البيضاء عودنا الكاتب الصحفي البارز عبدالزهرة البياتي. من كل عام. ان يطل علينا بكتاب جديد ٠ يحكي فيه عن معاناة واوجاع المتقاعدين الملعيشضية من مدنيين وعسكريين. حيث صدر حديثا كتابه الجديد الموسوم (دفاعا عن المتقاعدين.. اصحاب الششيية البيضاء).. يقع الكتاب ب (250) صفحة من الحجم المتوسط وتضمن الاعمدة الصحفية التي كتبها المؤلف في جريدة ( البينة الجديدة) والصحف المحلي…
“The true collector is in the grip not of what is collected but of collecting.” —susan sonTae The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting By Robert Irwin Pushkin, 240 pages, $17.95 By TimoTHY FARRINGTON OSTAGE STAMPS USED to come apart with a string of muted pops, their perforations separating seri- ally like tiny zippers. Today’s self- adhesive stamps offer scallop-cut edges in lame imitation but must…
Sinn Féin's missed moment Jude Webber on an insider's account of how the nationalist party squandered its chance to form Ireland's government inn Féin is — by aslender mar- gin — Ireland’s most popular party, according to a new opinion poll. But the gloss that came from its meteoric rise six years ago and what had seemed its inevi- table entry into government has gone. After winning the most first…
The Mark Leonard on how Chinas epic rise is changing the global order — but not in the way the west expected ost things that happen in our lifetime will be for- gotten long before we are dead. But one story is bound to be remem- bered: China's rise from sleepy giant to global superpower. Beijing's epic ascent is scrambling the world economy, trans- forming technology and overturning the internatio…
Sinn Féin's missed moment Jude Webber on an insider's account of how the nationalist party squandered its chance to form Ireland's government innFéinis — bya slender mar- gin — Ireland’s most popular party, according to a new opinion poll. But the gloss that came from its meteoricrise six years ago and what had seemed its inevi- table entry into government has gone. After winning the most first pr…
Books hough he is never directly mentioned, the spirit of Donald Trump stalks the contemporary dystopia of Emily St John Mandel’s new novel. The woman who gave us the defining pandemic novel just five years before Covid has set a similar timeframe for her drastic vision of America (and indeed the wider world). Exit Party isa sweeping saga of parallel universes, lost possibilities and collapsing go…
How to Change the Odds MYSTERIES Tom NoLan A team of blackjack players scheme to bleed a Vegas casino dry. MYSTERY READERS know Mar- tin Limén for his long-running series involving two American soldiers stationed in South Korea in the 1970s. But “Strip Rules” (Soho Crime, 224 pages, $29.95) is a stand-alone story of predatory blackjack players who face off against a Las Vegas casino in the mid-199…
