Literature
Culture
Talking tech addiction with the man who got us addicted
Nir Eyal ran a course at Stanford University teaching would-be tech-heads the dark arts of behavioural engineering. His first book, Hooked, became a bible for tech execs who wanted to create products that would keep us swiping and scrolling. Now he’s back with an antidote to tech addiction (but not an apology).
All the books we hated in school , but now love
Somehow, with a decade between us and the assigned reading of The Great Gatsby, it’s much easier to stomach the green light.
Culture
“Three Women feels like an erotic version of a Netflix true crime doc…”
Author Lisa Taddeo on her decade of research on desire and writing the year’s most talked-about book.
Culture
This author’s first novel was ruefully ignored, so it’s making a comeback
With Circus being reissued, author and poet Wayne Koestenbaum revisits how he brought the sexually deviant protagonist of his debut novel to life.