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Timothee Chalamet to produce and possibly star in Playground

Timothee Chalamet will produce and potentially play the lead role in a movie adaptation of Richard Powers' AI-themed novel Playground.

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'The final chapter' of Frank Lloyd Wright's prosperous career – this New York home was the perfect passion project for its latest owner, who continued to restore this historic home

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Best cheap hotels in Rome with central locations and beautiful budget rooms

These affordable hotels in Rome will save you money, without sacrificing on service, location or comforts

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Are You 'Sculpture-Literate'? Why Just Knowing How to Hang Art on Your Walls Only Takes You So Far

Without sculpture, your home's artistic merit is seriously stunted, says this design writer — here's what you need to know about how this medium is being use to decorate with today

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This timeless home was inspired by the grand country houses of England – you'd never believe it's less than 20 years old

English manor meets the classic Ralph Lauren aesthetic in this beautifully renovated home

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Ocean life, games and the digital revolution converge in Richard Powers’ Playground

Richard Powers’ latest novel Playground draws a distinction between two different kinds of games. There are finite games that we play to win: the aim is to defeat others and demonstrate our superiority and excellence. Then there are infinite games, played for the pleasure of the game itself. The joy…

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Playground by Richard Powers review – an electrifyingly beautiful tale of tech and the ocean

The wonders of oceanic life shine through in a magical book that is at once Anthropocene novel, disquieting AI thriller, postcolonial allegory and a portrait of friendship

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‘I no longer have to save the world’: Novelist Richard Powers on fiction and the climate crisis

The Pulitzer-winning author of The Overstory on how ocean life inspired his latest novel – and why we need to rewrite our relationship with nature

The Guardian - UK

Playground by Richard Powers review – the wonder of the oceans

This ambitious, rapturous Booker-longlisted epic explores life underwater, generative AI, climate crisis and the power of play

The Guardian - UK

Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich and Jason Reynolds among finalists for $50,000 Kirkus Prizes

Percival Everett’s “James,” a reworking of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the enslaved Jim’s perspective, is among the fiction finalists for the 11th annual Kirkus Prize

The Independent UK

Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize announces 13 books on ‘glorious’ longlist of ‘timeless and timely fiction’

This year’s longlist spotlights stories about belonging and displacement, featuring literary heavyweights such as Richard Powers and Percival Everett alongside a clutch of debut novelists

The Independent UK

11 Front Door Trends That Set the Tone for a Classy Home — Materials, Colors and Styles Architects Love Now

The front doors you'll find on the best-looking new builds and remodels right now — try these ideas to up your home's curb appeal

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Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

The long read: In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with and look after each other has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence?

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Heart of stone: turning a remote Scottish barn into a stylish home

Architect Lily Jencks inherited a 19th-century shell in the wilds of Dumfriesshire and has transformed it with empathy and flair

The Conversation

The Long Heat, an energy coup, a season of asthma ... new Australian cli-fi novel Children of Tomorrow challenges the form but is rife with contradictions

For at least the past decade, writers and critics have been debating the capacity of literary fiction to represent the realities of climate change. Some argue fiction is one of our best tools for reckoning with a world transfigured by anthropogenic warming. Others believe traditional narrative modes are unable to…

Livingetc

The 12 Essential Modern Bedroom Ideas for Those Who Want Good Slumber With a Side of Style

Perhaps one of the most personal spaces in your home, it makes sense that you should make a contemporary bedroom feel uniquely you

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about unlikely revolutionaries

Novels by Richard Powers and Colson Whitehead, and polemics by Rachel Carson and Mary Wollstonecraft show how ideas and words can change the world

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Bruno Latour, French philosopher and anthropologist, dies aged 75

Latour’s work on how humanity perceives the climate emergency won praise around the world

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AM Homes: ‘We want to believe that opportunity exists for women now; it does and it doesn’t’

The US author on trying to add a note of optimism to her work, getting advice from Jeanette Winterson, and her prescient new novel about a coup in Washington

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