Archive - This Week, Those Books

February 2025

Here's Germany's anti-Trump Trump

Two books on the east-west divisions he faces

Feb 26 •

Rashmee Roshan Lall

A doctor takes the world's temperature

Two books in less than five minutes

Feb 22 •

Rashmee Roshan Lall

4:54

Feeling the pulse of a sickening world

EXCLUSIVE: Our guest editor is a doctor whose fiction is based on the facts

Feb 19 •

Rashmee Roshan Lall

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All say aye to AI?

Listen now | A primer that tells us how it began. And a novel on how it might go

Feb 15 •

Rashmee Roshan Lall

3:43

How real can artificial intelligence be?

What every thinking human needs to know. And a robot tells a moving story

Feb 12 •

Rashmee Roshan Lall

What hope of justice for Gaza?

Listen now | A brand new book is heartening. And a novel about moving on

Feb 8 •

Rashmee Roshan Lall

4:27

Gaza and the case for global justice

A new book argues that the powerful can be prosecuted. And a story about forgetting

Feb 5 •

Rashmee Roshan Lall

When stories come true

Listen now (4 mins) | Three books in less than five minutes

Feb 1 •

Rashmee Roshan Lall

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4:20

January 2025

The writer as prophet and policy guru

In fiction, the future was always fact: MAGA, LA fires, moon landing

Jan 29 •

Rashmee Roshan Lall

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