Carl Miller, the author of The Death of the Gods, which deals with how power works and who holds it in the digital age, sheds light on how algorithms, originally devised as simple problem-solving devices, have become so complicated that no one, not even their creators, can control them; Kristen Roupenian points out the problem with an “unfailingly enthusiastic” compendium of twentieth-century female intellectuals (including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion): who is left out and why?; eighty-odd years ago, Zora Neale Hurston, now best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, interviewed Kossola O-Lo-Loo-Ay, the last known survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade. As her book is finally published, Colin Grant joins us to tell us more
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The Death of the Gods: The new global power grab by Carl Miller
Sharp: The women who made an art of having an opinion by Michelle Dean
Barracoon: The story of the last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale
Out Of Our Minds
Turning Leaves: Dame Penelope Lively and Josephine Lively
A Cure for Twixmas
Worlds of Pure Imagination
From Paris To The Prairies
There May Be Trouble Ahead
Silently And Very Fast
Charm School
Back Of The Net!
Lost In Space
The Handmaids' Tales
History in the Making
Finding Tongues In Trees
Punching Above Their Weight
Sing, O muses!
Elegies And Energies
Back To The Future
Back to School!
Power Play
To the Scriptorium!
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