46 h. ago Ezra Klein on Trump, Vance and free speech: ‘It feels like we are in one of the darkest imaginable timelines’

The influential US commentator has written a book about how politics can change people’s lives for the better. But first, there are more pressing challenges to address ...Ezra Klein, the New York Times podcast host and progressive media’s undisputed nerd king, starts his new book with something of a palate cleanser for our troubled times. For a few paragraphs, he and his co-author, the Atlantic journalist Derek Thompson, whisk us out of the grim reality of contemporary politics to a world of Abundance (the word they picked as their title).“You open your eyes at dawn and turn in the cool bedsheets,” they purr, before conjuring a near-future utopia where the cost of living crisis is a distant memory. “You live in a cocoon of energy so clean it barely leaves a carbon trace and so cheap you can scarcely find it on your monthly bill.” The fridge is full of fresh fruit and vegetables from skyscraper farms that sit amid rewilded landscapes. This is what we can look forward to, they say, if...

Politics

6 d. ago Girl, 11, pens book with main character who has vitiligo to champion inclusivity

Tiana Akoh-Arrey, who lives in Rugby, Warwickshire, has written her second book, which is called Difriendsity.

Politics

7 d. ago Salman Rushdie to tackle mortality in first fiction book written since knife attack

Book will mark author’s first fiction work after being stabbed on stage in 2022 – and will ‘explore themes and places that have been much on my mind’

Events

2 w. ago Are you suffering from 'food noise'? Michael Mosley's son has written a book about it

Social media is alight with people who are sharing their experience of constant internal chatter about food. This is so-called ‘food noise’ can be deafening — so here’s how to cope

Politics

3 w. ago The One Show's Alex Jones 'can't even say it' as Stacey Dooley leaves her fighting tears on live show

Stacey's new book includes a letter written by her young daughter Minnie

Politics

3 w. ago Michael Mosley's son to follow in his father's footsteps of helping people lead healthier lives by publishing his first book

Dr Jack Mosley (pictured) will publish his first book, Food Noise, next month as he explores why we feel hungry, and the advance of recent weight loss drugs in combating that.

Society

4 w. ago Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter accuses her mother of ‘not wanting to hear’ she was a victim of her father too

Caroline Darian has written a new book So That We May Remember about the Dominique Pelicot rape scandal

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