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Search ArticlesOn holiday: Hill station to ‘coolcation’
A recent summer evening in Indian hill station Nainital, founded in 1841 with an English trader’s house. Image: Harshit SR. CC BY-SA 4.0 This Week, Those Books links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle..
All together now. Why the Mecca pact matters
AI helped create an image of Saladin as inspiration This Week, Those Books links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle..
Edinburgh: Backdrop to the world's big fest
Edinburgh. Image by Natalie Parham, Unsplash This Week, Those Books links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle..
Mayors are in fashion. What if they led the world?
This Week, Those Books links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle. The biggest byelection in British history is for a mayor and it comes at a time of new prominence for this office from New York City to Johannesburg. Should mayors lead the world? Could they?
Rewiring Britain
New UK prime minister Andy Burnham gets to work. Image: With AI help This Week, Those Books links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle.
Sports overload. Three cheers
A glut of games. AI-generated image This Week, Those Books links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle. This high summer of global sport has the usual – tennis, cricket, cycling, football – but also the first international edition of the Esports World Cup. Sports overload?
America @250: The whole world played a role
Image by Spike Summers, Pixabay This Week, Those Books links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle. America’s 250th birthday – its semiquincentennial, in Latin – is both joyous and fraught.
Heatwave: Code red for our warming world
This Week, Those Books, which just turned three, links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle. Europe’s scorching heatwave – the most severe and widespread ever to have affected so large a region – is a red alert for our warming world, according to scientists.
Pakistan wants to be Trump's BFF
AI imagines the scene of a US-Iran agreement brokered by Pakistan, in the style of the 1815 Treaty of Vienna that ended a nearly 100-year cycle of conflict This Week, Those Books, which just turned three, links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle.
It's all kicking off. Football and politics
Image by Jannik, Unsplash This Week, Those Books, which just turned three, links the big international story to the world of books and has a few thousand followers on every continent except Antarctica. We aim to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context – from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle. The largest football World Cup in the tournament’s nearly 100-year history is more diverse than any other but also the most polarised.