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In this beautifully illustrated and delightfully quirky tale by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers, the Man in the Moon looks down on the happy, dancing people on Earth every night, wishing he could join them. He hitches a ride on a passing comet and crash-lands on Earth, where he quickly finds himself thrown into jail by people...

Fuelled by the widespread immiseration caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and facilitated by the boom in cryptocurrencies, online frauds have grown exponentially in recent years. From the infamous ‘pig butchering’ romance scams to sophisticated online extortion ploys, phony crypto schemes, and other investment scams, Southeast Asia has rapidly emerged as a global hub for a host of cybercrime operations targeting...

A multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by "a writer of immense poetic power" (The Guardian) In the late 1980s, French poet and psychologist Jon-Perse finds himself in possession of one of the most promising inventions of the century: a computer. Enchanted by snippets of Persian poetry he learns from his Uzbek translation partner, Abdulhamid Ismoil, Jon-Perse builds...

BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER BOSTON.COM BOOKCLUB SELECTION A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbour's door, and experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of winter, from the meteorological to the mythological, are captured in this masterful essay, told in wise and luminous prose that...

Since the turn of the century, technology has transformed the way we communicate and consume, how we work and fall in love, and how we navigate the world. We are increasingly reliant on it, but few of us know anything about the science driving this technological change. Kurt Vonnegut famously said that to leave technology out of fiction is to...