Authorial intelligence versus artificial intelligence: an ongoing palaver. We would rather think as little as we can about the possibilities of both; but it seems irresponsible to ignore the intellect

There’s no telling what will make a nonfiction bestseller. Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and the late Erich von Däniken’s junk archaeology about “ancient astronauts” both seem implausible

LETTERS

A little more than five years ago, I took up early morning swimming. I lived in Austin which is in the center of Texas. In the centre of Austin, there is a large park; in the centre of the large park

“Where are we to begin?”, Virginia Woolf asks in her essay “How to Read a Book”. “How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasures from what we read?

ILLUSTRATION BY PAUL COX Going full Celt VOICING ...