The Pharmakon
Sam LeithSam Leith on Reading, Writing, Re-Reading, Rhetoric and Recovery
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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At last, a cool use for AI
I was just writing in the Spectator this week about the latest wave of AI doomers, and en passant I made a far from exhaustive catalogue of a few of the negative things that AI had given us:
To list a few: the poisoning of the informati...
The history of the world in one book title
I thought of writing something high-minded this week, but then I got an email announcing a new book and I got sidetracked into an irk. This book — out next month — is called A History of the World in Twelve Beans. I expect it’s great. No sh...
A good ride
Took the kids to Thorpe Park last week, and the whole experience made me feel about 108. I’ve got history with the place, see. When I was a kid growing up in suburban Surrey, we were forever going on school trips to Thorpe Park and we thoug...
New books: get them while they’re hot
Morning all
By popular demand — okay, a couple of people in the comments on my last post — here’s the first in what I intend to be a weekly feature listing the books published in the UK this week of which publishers have made me aware. It...
Word of the Week: Pothos
Alexander: wouldn’t play with Stephen Spender ...
Hello everyone. I’m back from my annual travels, full of baguette and joie-de-vivre, or at least baguette.
This’ll be a brief one because I’m up to my ears in Baillie Gifford reading ahead...
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