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R SUKUMAR Books on Gaza, the global economy, space exploration, Twitter, surrealist art, Nepal’s feminist history, and memoirs that touch on caste prejudice and human trafficking all feature in the HT Editors’ collective list of great reads of the year. (Monica Gupta) A tale of survival that’s also an appreciation of life: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (HT PHOTO) About humankind and the wild and how one interacts with and shapes the other Wrap up the year gone by & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click…

I first saw a wall of photographs and text from The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project by the Nepal Picture Library at the India Art Fair, New Delhi, in 2020, and I thought immediately how important a book that contained this archive would prove to be. Three years later, an exhaustive yet comfortably-sized book has been published, holding an extraordinary visual archive of Nepal’s feminist history. The research for this began in 2018, aided by a Magnum Foundation grant. A visual archive of a…

Irish writer Claire Keegan’s latest collection of short fiction, So Late in the Day, is an astute examination of casual misogyny and sexism that, in the end, deprives the protagonist of prospects of marriage and a happy family life. “Mosab’s poetry goes beyond reflecting the pain and suffering of his people to show their resilience and undefeated hope even as devastation surrounds them.” (Amazon) Keegan’s short fiction is a masterclass in brevity and narrative precision. More is conveyed in a few words and…

After 2020’s moody chiller Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia returned withSilver Nitrate, an intoxicating tale about childhood best friends, one a talented sound editor and the other a washed-up soap star, seeking a long-lost horror film haunted by a curse. The search leads the pair into a netherworld of Nazi occultism and quite literal movie magic. The complementary points of view of two brown-skinned film nerds deepen its exploration into how white supremacists co-opted the practices of people of colour and how…

ARUNIMA MAZUMDAR So much to read; so little time! (neelsky / Shutterstock) Reviewer’s pick: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (Courtesy the reviewer) A retired man reminisces about his school days and the repercussions of his conduct in this Booker Prize winning novel from over a decade ago. Stay tuned with breaking news on HT Channel on Facebook. Join Now Click to join. CHINTAN GIRISH MODI Reviewer’s pick: Western Lane by Chetna Maroo (Courtesy the reviewer) A novel about a Jain family in the UK…

2023 may have been the year of the LLM—we highlighted our most popular articles on ChatGPT and related topics last week—but data science and machine learning are far too vast for us to reduce them to a single phenomenon (as inescapable as it might be).Every day, TDS authors publish excellent work on a staggering range of topics, from the latest tools of the trade to career insights and project walkthroughs. For our final Variable edition of the year, we decided to highlight some of the most memorable and widely read posts…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, DC Comics | Tagged: grant morrison, harley quinn, Knight TerrorsHarley Quinn has entered the dreamstate with Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #1 out tomorrow. And dreams about what she's reading.Harley Quinn has entered the dreamstate of Knight Terrors with Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #1 out tomorrow. She's always been pretty close to breaking the fourth wall, but now she gets closer than ever as she comes face to face with a certain comic book. She's already destroying the…

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#DiabloDeaths Hollywood star Megan Fox is now starring in the newest Diablo IV commercial. Instead of just asking players to buy Diablo IV, she’s asking them to die — in the game. She begins the video by saying “If there’s one thing I love, it’s the sight of blood. And in Diablo IV, there are rivers of it”. This alludes to Blizzard’s new campaign where Fox herself will be eulogizing the deaths of some players who use the hashtag #DiabloDeaths. The idea might sound cool, but remember that she also states that it…

If you're like me, you've spent a lot of time over the past few months trying to figure out what this AI thing is all about.Large-language models, generative AI, algorithmic bias – it's a lot for the less tech-savvy of us to sort out, trying to make sense of the myriad headlines about artificial intelligence swirling about. But understanding how AI works is just part of the dilemma. As a society, we're also confronting concerns about its social, psychological and ethical effects. Here we spotlight articles about the…