杏吧原创

Book review

A man is lying in a hammock in the sun, he is reading a book on his digital tablet. The hammock is hanging in a beautiful green forest in Sweden.

Comment

The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far

Want to save our seas? Make exotic cocktails? Ponder life's meaning? Whatever your plans this July, Simon Ings rounds up the year's best non-fiction so far

Culture
Woman walking in fantasy forest. 3D generated image.

Technology

The best science fiction books of 2024 so far

Culture
TOPSHOT - A man pushes a bycicle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Comment

A powerful new book shows why it’s so important to understand war

Culture
2F71A3H A Mallard duck on the River Avon, Warwick, Warwickshire, England, UK

Comment

Matt Parker’s comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths

Culture
Young woman with a backpack hiking in the mountains. Exploring in the nature, enjoying the view.

Comment

Save the planet, release your inner wild, urges a passionate new book

Culture
FEE8WC Seoul, South Korea-November 15, 2015; Men playing in the outside ?Baduk? that is the Korean name for Go. November 15, 2015 Seoul

Comment

New book explores how games shape the world 鈥� for better or for worse

Culture
map of algers area

Comment

Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

Culture
Janus Films handout film still: THE BEAST Directed by Bertrand Bonello. The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely ?erase? their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Le?a Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay).

Comment

L茅a Seydoux and George MacKay dazzle in shocking sci-fi film The Beast

Culture
W0XR8N hawaii volcano kilauea

Comment

Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s novel Eruption fails to thrill

Culture
Success hope ambition and dream concept. Surreal artwork. Businessman with a stair in a gate, business background illustration. painting

Comment

How to take on AI’s challenge to ideas about what can be conscious

An impressive and exuberant book by neuroscientist Christof Koch challenges the idea that simulating intelligence and consciousness is identical to the real deal

Culture

Comment

Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

Culture

Comment

Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI鈥檚 future in new books

Culture

Comment

New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

Culture

Comment

Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

Culture