In a rave review for the New York Times, Adam Grant says Sleeping Beauties by David Byrne is “a captivating quest to understand how we come to remember forgotten ideas, inventions and technologies.”
From our newsletter: the first of a series about the day-to-day of working in publishing (featuring endless mailings and a needy office dog).
Tilda Swinton is one of the most celebrated actors of her generation. She is also an iconoclast, an artist, a style icon and, now, an author.
In our newsletter, to mark the publication of The Pen by Simon Garfield, our own Robert Collins writes about the book, the implement that inspired it and his own stationery preferences.
From our newsletter: Cathy Rentzenbrink on her commitment to the Queen of Crime and how it led to The Agatha Christie Cure.
