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The big idea: how games can change your life
To get the most out of play, we should embrace it for what it is, not as way to hone skills or train our brains A 93-year-old woman sits in a hospital bed. Facing her is a figure in a full haz...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/28/the-big-idea-how-games-can-change-your-life
The stoicism secret: how Ryan Holiday became a Silicon Valley guru
He has sold 5m books about this ancient Greek approach to life – and been feted by sports teams and CEOs. What makes this former PR man so popular? What is it that made the former PR man turn...
American author Joy Williams: ‘The comfy story has got to change’
The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncanny Joy Williams, 80, h...
‘Elephants show immense interest in corpses’: Susana Monsó, the philosopher examining what animals know about death
Do other species understand that life ends? Do they mourn and even bury their dead? The Spanish academic and writer is looking for answers An opossum will play dead to escape a predator. Ants r...
Robert Stern obituary
My colleague and friend Robert Stern, who has died aged 62 from brain cancer, spent 34 years at the University of Sheffield. He was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation, comb...
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/sep/24/robert-stern-obituary
From a new Murakami to a memoir by Cher: the best books of the autumn
Cosy crime, eco-thrillers, political memoirs, YA fantasy: there’s something for everyone in our pick of the books to look out for in the months ahead Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Jonatha...
The Happiness of Dogs by Mark Rowlands review – a masterclass in canine philosophy
From delighting in repetitive tasks to unselfconscious joy, there is much to be learned from a dog’s approach to life What is important in life? What gives it purpose, and meaning? While phil...
Philosophy professor Jeffrey J Kripal: ‘Thinking about a UFO as some kind of extraterrestrial spaceship is naive’
The academic and author draws on quantum mechanics, English romantic philosophy and mysticism to explore a new theory of mind that embraces the paranormal Jeffrey J Kripal is a professor of ph...
Lights, camera, comfy furnishings: why the ‘beige chic’ of Nancy Meyers is having a revival
In her hit romcoms, the director’s sets were as popular as the films. Now trending on social media more than a decade after her last movie, her coveted look is back In 2009, the film-maker Na...
I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs
What makes human existence worth the bother? How can we free ourselves of inner conflict and live with joy? In an extract from his new book, philosopher Mark Rowlands seeks canine counsel in answ...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/18/i-wag-therefore-i-am-the-philosophy-of-dogs
Concerning the Future of Souls: 99 Stories of Azrael by Joy Williams review – brilliantly deadpan
A master of the short story explores mortality and beyond, through these funny, boundlessly intelligent visions of the angel of death America is an increasingly strange place these days, but pe...
Philospher Peter Godfrey-Smith: ‘To some extent, our planet would be better off without humanity’
With the bestselling Other Minds, the philosopher dramatically changed our view of octopuses. Now, concluding his trilogy about the evolution of intelligence, he shows how animal life has shaped ...
The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – big thinkers with visions of a better world
The academic’s page-turning volume of essays – a study of intellectuals who sought to improve the politics and societies of their day – makes you feel a little more learned than you did bef...
The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – casting around
A spinoff from the podcast of the same name, this potted philosophical primer fails to live up to its title When is a book not a book? When it’s the book of a podcast. David Runciman, profess...
History for Tomorrow by Roman Krznaric review – looking back, moving forward
From Arab scholars to hippy mothers, can history offer forgotten answers to modern problems? We need lessons from history now more than ever. Mothers with young children sit isolated in their o...
In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger review – from here to eternity
The veteran war reporter’s near-death experience during a vascular emergency forms the basis of a philosophically ambitious and questioning memoir For what it’s worth, the week before my mo...
Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes review – deep dive into the teenage mind
An academic psychologist’s insightful and compassionate study of adolescence is expertly presented, plotting out harmful as well as helpful transitions into adulthood I had just emerged from ...
The big idea: is it OK to do wrong for the greater good?
Jailed tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried believed altruism justified his actions. Was he right? Earlier this year, the cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison o...
‘He had a sarcastic turn of phrase’: discovery of 1509 book sheds new light on ‘father of utilitarianism’
Unearthed notes owned by the renowned philosopher Jeremy Bentham reveal the roots of his influential ethics One of the dangerous “fools” caricatured in a medieval printed satire called Ship...
The Greek philosopher who was perhaps the first weather forecaster
Many popular sayings in weather lore can be traced back to Theophrastus and his book On Signs “A dry May and a leaking June” is one of many traditional weather sayings that can be traced b...