“People don’t just pick up a book once, read it, put it down, and then that’s the end of their relationship with that idea…. we can move in a person’s life in multiple ways.” Sarah Stein Lubrano describes The School of Life as ‘a modern press’: books are vitally important,…
‘If five years ago somebody had said to me, “So you know, Kate, are you ever going to write a book?” I would have said, “No, no, no, no, no. I don’t write books. I draw pictures.”‘ But when Kate Raworth doodled a doughnut shape to capture her vision of…
We spend our lives just one click away from the answer to any question, with instant access to entertainment, education, distraction, connection to the hive mind. Our digital culture makes so much possible, but what’s the cost to us? In this episode Tom Chatfield explores the nature of attention and creativity,…
