Viking We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How It Shattered a Nation” (Viking) looks back to the nation’s most catastrophic market collapse. Read an excerpt below. “1929” by Andrew…
Page Six may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. This year marks the 30th anniversary of teen classic “Clueless,” but the 1995 film’s fashion still looks as fresh as ever. And according to costume designer Mona May, that’s, like, totally…
Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending. While there are certainly worse problems (e.g. white nationalism in…
Knopf We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In her posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” (to be published by Knopf on Oct. 21), Virginia Roberts Giuffre wrote about her experience being recruited at age 16 into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring,…
No two speculative booms are exactly alike, of course, but they share some common elements. Typically, there is great excitement among investors about new technology—in today’s case, A.I.—and its potential to boost profits for companies positioned to take advantage of it. In the twenties, commercial radio was a novel and revolutionary medium: tens of millions…
Simon & Schuster We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his new memoir, “Life, Law & Liberty” (to be published Tuesday by Simon & Schuster), former Justice Anthony Kennedy writes about his life’s journey to becoming a lawyer, a judge, and the deciding vote on some of the…
When Chris Ferrari and Shridhar Shah, executives at first responder equipment supplier MES Life Safety, first heard about a new book club-style program at work, they were a bit skeptical. “I thought, ‘What are we doing? Like, how does this make sense for our everyday business?’” Ferrari said. “Kumbaya was the first thing that came…
The publisher HarperCollins UK has said it removed “unverified” claims about First Lady Melania Trump from a recently published book and issued an apology. “HarperCollins UK recently published a book by Andrew Lownie titled ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.’ We have, in consultation with the author, removed passages of the…
Legendary singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, also known as Yusuf, announced that his upcoming North American book tour will be postponed due to unspecified visa issues. The “Morning Has Broken” singer took to Instagram to share the news on Monday, saying his “Cat on the Road to Findout” book tour won’t be going ahead as scheduled next month….
A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots. U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court Thursday after the two sides worked to address his concerns…