Geographical Magazine
Writer s Reads: Rana Foroohar, author of Don t Be Evil – The Case Against Big Tech Writer s Reads: Rana Foroohar, author of Don t Be Evil – The Case Against Big Tech Written by Geographical 2021 Rana Foroohar is the author of Makers and Takers (2016) and Don t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech (2019). She is a business columnist, an associate editor at the Financial Times, and CNN s global economic analyst. Here, she shares a selection of reads that have inspired, shaped and moved her
An Artist of the Floating World • Kazuo Ishiguro
• 1986
My favourite writer of all time.
Remains of the Day is wonderful, but this book, which follows an ageing painter in post-WWII Japan looking back on his life, is my personal favourite. Both play with memory and what we chose to forget or reimagine.
The Duchess of Cornwall Reading Room launches on Instagram today with four books chosen by Camilla.
They are: The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel; Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owns; Restless by William Boyd; and The Architect s Apprentice by Elif Shafak.
In a video to launch the initiative, Camilla says: To me, reading is a great adventure. I ve loved it since I was very small and I d love everybody else to enjoy it as much as I do. You can escape, and you can travel, and you can laugh and you can cry. There s every type of emotion humans experience in a book.
Five tips to get reading again if you’ve been struggling during the pandemic
How to deal with literature, interrupted. Engin Akyurt / Pexels
Like many people, you may have resolved this New Year to read more in 2021 and spend less time on your screens. And now you may be wondering how to find the time to do it, especially in lockdown conditions, with different time constraints and anxieties pressing on us.
One solution is to go with shorter bursts of reading. Our Summer 2020 pop-up project, Ten-Minute Book Club, was a selection of ten excerpts from free literary texts, drawn from a wide range of writing in English globally.