30 h. ago Vote in our Independent Money poll: Have proposed pension or inheritance tax changes affected your retirement savings plans?

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7 d. ago Readers’ letters: Digital ID cards an open invitation to identity thieves

A reader suggests Digital ID cards would inevitably be vulnerable to hackers

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8 d. ago Vote in our Independent Money poll: How much easily accessible cash do you have in savings?

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1 week ago Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside

The cult author’s autofictional follow-up to No One Is Talking About This is the story of a breakdownIt sounds like the setup to a joke: a viral author and a global virus walk into a novel. The punchline is long Covid, an illness that defies narrative – dissolves it. Patricia Lockwood’s new autofiction, Will There Ever Be Another You, is the product of that cruel dissolution. “I wrote it insane, and edited it sane,” she explained in a recent interview. The madness is the method. But must you know the mind before you can know the madness?Lockwood is the literary Frankenchild of Dorothy Parker and Flannery O’Connor: a heretical wit fused with gothic strangeness, vintage quippery rewired for the digital age. She’s the kind of writer who inspires parasocial devotion and copycat haircuts. Even her cats are internet-famous. The sacred text of Lockwood lore is Priestdaddy, her glorious 2017 memoir, which introduced readers to the American author’s trouser-resistant father, an ordained...

Science

1 week ago ‘A resistance to AI’: The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir

Richard Beard says he’s got ‘better at telling the truth’ by arranging his life story on a grid – and invites others to do the sameRichard Beard, award-winning author of The Day That Went Missing and Sad Little Men, thought he was writing his next book, a whole life memoir. In the event, he has written his way off the page and into an entirely new publishing model. The Universal Turing Machine is the title both of Beard’s memoir and the mass memoir project he hopes others will help him to build.Organised as a chessboard, each of the 64 squares narrates one year of Beard’s life, in 1,000 words per year. (He’s 58, so the last five years are fictionalised.) The reader moves around the “board” as if they were a knight, picking the next year to read from options limited by the knight’s L-shaped ambulation.Contributions to The Universal Turing Machine can be made at universalturingmachine.co.uk Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Vote in our Independent Money poll: Which describes your current pension position best?

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3 w. ago Vote in our Independent Money poll: Would you rather save or invest a lump sum of cash?

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3 w. ago Why this moment of rightwing racism feels so different – and how we can resist it

Gary Younge discusses the ‘whitelash’ that fuelled another summer of riots in the UK and beyondDon’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt has been a second summer of riots in the UK targeting asylum seekers and immigration. And while there is something stomach-sinking about the mood and the rise in racist rhetoric, it is also worth remembering that we are in the middle of a global phenomenon, and that there is resistance. I spoke to the author and former Guardian columnist Gary Younge about why this moment feels different to those before it. Continue reading...

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