This Week, Those Books

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.

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.

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.

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.

A symbol of Armenian identity: The ‘tatik-papik’ or grandmother and grandfather sculpture hewn from volcanic rock in Nagorno-Karabakh. Image: IsaaK Alexandre KaRslian, 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. Our aim is to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context –  from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle.

Discover more from This Week, Those Books A quick post that join the dots on the big news story and the world of books. Makes you smarter, faster. Subscribers in nearly a hundred countries agree. Already have an account?

A repost, as the Pope addresses AI. What thinking humans must know. And a robot's story Image by Julien Tromeur, 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. Our aim is to provide, in roughly five minutes, crucial context –  from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle. Housekeeping note: I’m away on holiday until June 7.

Image by Andrew Ebrahim, 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. Our aim is to provide, in just five minutes, crucial context –  from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle. Housekeeping note: I’m away on holiday until June 7.

Our update on the famous photo on the right, which shows Mao Zedong meeting Richard Nixon in February 1972 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. Our aim is to provide, in just five minutes, crucial context –  from fiction and non-fiction – to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle. Housekeeping note: I’m away on holiday until June 7.

Prominent Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed in April in an Israeli strike that Lebanon’s prime minister described as a ‘war crime’ 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. Our aim is to provide crucial context —  from fiction and non-fiction  —  to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle.