Artist William Mullan’s obsession with apples began in Waitrose in Esher, Surrey. An American kid who moved a lot with his dad’s job, Mullan’s eye was first caught by the Egremont Russet. “It was the ugliest apple I had ever seen. It looked like a gold…
Vigil: Suranne Jones’s classy new drama is Sunday night TV at its best
This multilayered murder mystery set on a nuclear submarine takes the usual police procedural beats and gives them a new lease of lifeThere are three things we, as a nation, love and adore: bank holiday weekends, multilayered murder mysteries being sol…
現実の世界に生きるということ／『ニューヨーカー』を読む：#19「UNREAD MESSAGES」
トルーマン・カポーティーやJD・サリンジャーなど名文筆家たちが寄稿し、英語圏で小説を書く者ならば誰もが憧れる雑誌『ニューヨーカー』。そこに描かれる作品には、時代の空気を敏感に感じ、翻弄され、あるいは抗いながら生きる人々の姿が至極の筆致で刻まれている。『ニューヨーカー』を読むことは、すなわち時代の変化をいち早く「体感」することでもあるのだ。ニューヨーク在住の作家・新元良一が今月選ぶのは、わたしたちにとってもはや手放すことはできないほどに依存してしまった…
Sally Rooney on the hell of fame: ‘It doesn’t seem to work in any real way for anyone’
At 30, the Normal People author is already the most talked-about novelist of her generation. As she readies her third novel, she’s bracing for more (unwanted) attentionSally Rooney appears before a stark, white background, stripped of even the most inc…
Children’s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels
Wild island adventures, hungry monsters, TS Eliot’s cat – plus the best new YA novelsThe remote wildness of a Scottish island blended with Celtic folklore and Hindu mythology: Jasbinder Bilan’s Aarti & the Blue Gods (Chicken House) is a gem for rea…
Fran Lebowitz: ‘If people disagree with me, so what?’
With a hit Netflix series and The Fran Lebowitz Reader now published in the UK, the American wit talks about failing to write, her dislike of Andy Warhol and her best friend Toni MorrisonFran Lebowitz is a famous writer who famously doesn’t write. “I’m…
Colin Farrell on making The North Water: ‘It’s a relief that no one died’
Farrell and Stephen Graham star in the gritty new thriller about an 1850s whaling ship. However, the drama wasn’t confined to the screen …Nothing shocked me about The North Water,” says Colin Farrell, stroking his straggly beard. “If I want to be shock…
Streaming: The Father and other films about dementia
Florian Zeller’s heart-rending film The Father is the latest in a spate of recent works tackling the condition and its effects on the familyFirst shown way back at Sundance in January last year, and repeatedly delayed by the pandemic, The Father waited…
Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw review – an intimate family portrait
A Malaysian novelist of Chinese descent explores his roots – and the shadow of family traumaYears ago I was queueing in a fruit and veg shop in Cornwall with my half-Chinese dad when an elderly woman came up and asked him: “Where are you from?”“Liverpo…
音声データの“脱植民地化”を目指せ：ビッグテックから母語の主権を守るマオリの人々
日本や世界では人種差別による同化政策によって、いまも2週間にひとつの割合で先住民族の言語が死に絶えている。そんななかニュージーランドのマオリ語の放送局は、貴重な音声データをビッグテックやグローバル企業に明け渡すのではなくマリオの人々のために役立てようと、独自に機械学習による自動音声認識ツールの開発に乗り出している。いまや言語の再生と復興に力を注ぐ他の先住民コミュニティにも拡がる音声データの「脱植民地化」を追う。
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