Tag: book

  • A dot-com cyber-futurist library

    Over 100 books from the dot-com era looking for an appreciative home I started buying books about the internet in the mid-1980s, long before I’d actually encountered it. I was…

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  • A small bookclub

    All these novels have fewer than 200 pages, some of them fewer than 100. Together they make up the first couple of batches of books in my family’s Small Book…

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  • Anti-singularists

    Singularities and other tech-determinist fantasies are shown the door in John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid’s The Social Life of Information. This is the sanest, most humane book I’ve read…

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  • A gruffalo? What’s a gruffalo?

    If you’re in charge of small children (3 and up) and you can still get tickets, I think you should take them to see Tall Stories Theatre Company’s deliriously entertaining…

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  • Mog is dead!

    Judith Kerr, much-loved children’s author, on why Mog had to die.

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