A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis

A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence—from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom “This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . . .

A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained.”—New Yorker “A valuable corrective to much of the hype surrounding AI and a useful instruction manual for the future.”—John Thornhill, Financial Times “It’s a masterpiece, and ...

The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present