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Google launches a suite of tech-powered tools for reporters, Journalist Studio | beSpacific

A Glance at Daily Life Among the Caretakers of Britain’s Small Islands – The New York Times

No vaccine for cruelty – The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights | International | The Economist

The Llama as Therapist – The New York Times

2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read | beSpacific

‘Water is sacred’: 10 visual artists reflect on the human right to water | Global development | The Guardian

Native American Treaties Now Online for the First Time | beSpacific

Satin Island : a novel by Tom McCarthy
TomMcGreevy's review: "There is something oddly reminiscent of Italo Calvino in this book. Of Wittgenstein too - the structure, the apparent argumentation, towards an insight. Phenomenology as well in that perception is key to understanding. And Claude Lévi-Strauss. Yeah, this is a novel, about a man trying to make sense of his life/work/world. And […]
Swing Time: A Novel by Zadie Smith
TomMcGreevy's review: "In short, life will only get worse tomorrow. Rather unrelentingly..."
Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
TomMcGreevy's review: "Kosinski is a very disturbing writer. Much of this seems autobiographical, and yet it is called a work of fiction. Vignettes, ranging from the banal to the grotesque to the sadistic, form the storyline. Reading it is in moral terms voyeurism. The reader is complicit in allowing the author to tell the story. It is hard to rate […]
The Power by Naomi Alderman
TomMcGreevy's review: "A very well written story on the whole. I don't think the exchange of letters as a plot device is particularly effective, but it does make the point that the author intends. And on the day when Trump has announced his intent to postpone the 2020 election, the 1 Samuel 8 parable is particularly chilling. That said, while […]